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Candidate raises Open Meetings Act and transparency concerns; resident explains tax-statement breakdown
Summary
A Place 2 candidate criticized how some committee notices are posted and called for clearer website protocols under the Texas Open Meetings Act; a resident also described how property-tax dollars are allocated among local taxing entities.
During the public-comment period, Erin Hartwell, a candidate for Place 2, told the council she posted concerns on social media about the availability and posting location of notices for a workshop that she initially could not locate on the city website. Hartwell said she had retracted one earlier statement that the workshop itself had not been posted and apologized for that misunderstanding, but said the notice had been "obfuscated" by placement in a "More News" section that residents might not check. She said…
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