Tag: minutes of meetings

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Guilty: Violating the Open Meetings Act

By:  Diane Benjamin This was on the Consent Agenda for last Monday’s meeting:  http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=242&parent=9534 Many old minutes are approved at meetings like this.  Alderman not on the council when the meetings took place are approving minutes YEARS after the meetings. What’s the law? 30 days or the next meeting! The Bloomington City Council is GUILTY […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Erasing the history of you

By:  Diane Benjamin I’ve always thought minutes of a meeting reflect what happened at the meeting.  I also believed that minutes were kept as a permanent record for posterity, therefore whoever took them had a duty to make sure they accurately reflected proceedings. Evidently the City of Bloomington doesn’t think so. On their website 2 items are […]