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The DeFuniak Free Press is pleased to see that WZEP has reported about our city council’s handling of the meeting minutes. When the representatives within our local government are held accountable for their actions, everyone wins.
We do, however, believe some clarification is in order.
No one has addressed the fact that the language in the statute requires changes to be made during the meeting. “Draft minutes of a board meeting may be circulated to individual board members for corrections and studying prior to approval by the board, so long as any changes, corrections, or deletions are discussed and adopted during the public meeting when the board adopts the minutes.”
Our council and other representatives continue to suggest that because the changes being made are grammatical in nature, it’s ok to change them outside the meeting. But that isn’t what the statute says. Continue