Tuesday, October 03, 2006

City Council Meeting Minutes

A recent West Shore Follies Blog post entitled Call it as I see it.......... brought up a point that I was considering for a blog entry. Lately, City Council meeting minutes have not been posted on the City of West Haven website. In the past, they've been in the downloads area of the site, but haven't been there for some months now.

According to Colonial Park Taxpayer (who writes the West Shore Follies):
All meeting minutes from the city council are "supposed" to be posted within 7 days after the meeting.
Anyone have a reference for this "rule"?

UPDATE: the reference was the Monthly Department Meeting Minutes (see comments section for details of how to access). However, while this document says that there must be meeting minutes within 7 days, it doesn't say that it must be publicly posted at all.

2 comments:

Colonial Park Taxpayer said...

Check out this link:

http://www.cityofwesthaven.com/documentwarehouse/kb_results.asp?type=category

Scroll down and you will see a PP presentation from the 4/21/06 Dept Head Meeting. In that presentation is a slide stating all meeting minutes must be posted within 7 days of the meeting. It also has stipulations regarding meeting agendas and schedules as well.

West Haven Tax Payer said...

To clarify the link given, go to the City of West Haven downloads areas, select 'Official City documents', and click select. The file that you are looking for is this one:

Department Head Meeting 4-21-06 Type of File:
Last Saved: 4/24/2006 5:01:08 PM
Summary: This is a PowerPoint presentation as prepared by Mayor John M. Picard and Executive Assistant James Burns.
City of West Haven Monthly Department Meeting April 21, 2006 One Team - One Dream YOU can make the DIFFERENCE Agenda Mission Statement Policy/Procedures Parking Relocation Web Page Update Freedom of Information (FOI) Budget Update Roundtable City of West Haven Vision To be a diverse community which James Burns.