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Audio-recording Executive Sessions

When asked to audio-record their nonpublic (executive or closed) meetings, most governing bodies will dismiss the suggestion without even weighing its pros and cons. The fact that one public body–the High Bridge Borough Council (Hunterdon County)–resolved earlier this year to audio-record its executive sessions, might help readers get their town councils and school boards to […]

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Neptune Township agrees to specific start time for “regular portion” of its meetings.

Neptune Township (Monmouth County) holds two successive meetings on the same night (a “workshop” meeting followed by a “regular” meeting). They advertise a) that the “workshop” meeting will begin at 6 p.m., and b) that the “regular” meeting will commence “immediately after” the “workshop” meeting. In a February 3, 2009 letter to the Mayor and […]