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Planning Commission asks county attorney to clarify legal responsibility for meeting minutes
Summary
Commissioner Pete Kapuscinski urged the Planning Commission to restrict edits to meeting minutes and asked for legal guidance after expressing concern that edits could alter the official record; the commission requested a formal report from county counsel.
On July 28, 2025, the Planning Commission asked county legal staff to research what commissioners are legally required to approve when they approve meeting minutes, after Commissioner Pete Kapuscinski raised concerns that allowing edits — rather than limited corrections — could change the official record.
Kapuscinski (District 3 Planning Commissioner) told the commission in a written statement read aloud at the meeting that “correcting and editing minutes are 2 entirely different things,” and warned that allowing edits could make the minutes “invalid in any…
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