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Senior Advisory Board to Accept New City Secretary Minutes Format; staff to start taking official minutes in June

5923329 · June 13, 2025
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Summary

Farmers Branch staff told the Senior Advisory Board the city secretary will standardize minutes formatting and staff liaisons will produce official minutes starting with June meetings; board secretaries may continue to take supplemental notes that will not be voted on.

Farmers Branch staff told the Senior Advisory Board on a routine agenda item that the city secretary has standardized how minutes will appear across advisory boards and commissions and that staff liaisons will prepare the official minutes beginning with June meetings.

The change matters because it alters who prepares the official record: staff — not volunteer board secretaries — will take the minutes that are included in the board packet and used as the…

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