Long-term observers of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors have possibly noticed a long gap between the end of a meeting and the approval of its minutes. Charlottesville Tomorrow noted the issue in a story nine years ago.
In the past year, the lag time has been shrinking and as of this publication there are four sets of approved minutes from four meetings from this year. Two of those were approved by the Board of Supervisors on April 1 on the consent agenda.
Jack Jouett District Supervisor Sally Duncan is in her first year in elected office and she wanted to thank the office of the Board Clerk for stepping up their efforts.
“Maybe only a handful of people in the county are as excited about as I am, but meeting minutes are really important,” Duncan said. “They are a really good source for government transparency, but also for local government history. It has been challenging at times to find meeting minutes of the Board of Supervisors.”
Duncan said she was glad that the records of her first two meetings have now been added.
Supervisor Ann Mallek of the White Hall District thanked Duncan for bringing up the matter. Albemarle uses verbatim minutes which allows people to read what was said in detail.
“I will just echo how important the literal format that we have is because it really tells the story of what happens as opposed to just the topic, which really doesn’t help us,” Mallek said.
Take a look yourself:
All of the various resources to learn more about Albemarle Board of Supervisors meetings including links to video are available here.
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