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Citizens press commissioners on missing Ag Committee minutes as board abolishes master-plan committee

5843480 · August 20, 2025
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Summary

Public commenters criticized the county’s response to an open records/meetings complaint over missing Agricultural Master Plan Committee minutes; the board voted to abolish the committee during the same meeting.

Two citizens used the Aug. 19 meeting to press Harris County commissioners over missing minutes from the Agricultural Master Plan Committee and the county’s response to an open-records/open-meetings complaint; later in the meeting the board voted to abolish the committee.

Brian McKeen, who said he filed an open-records complaint with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, told the board the committee failed to produce minutes for four meetings between 2022 and 2024 and that the county’s response to the AG characterized unapproved, handwritten notes as meeting minutes. McKeen said the assistant attorney general called the county’s…

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