City of Clifton: staff says meeting notice ran Jan. 5, 2025 in Herald News and was posted

A staff member told the City of Clifton Municipal Council that the meeting had been publicly noticed, including a legal advertisement in the Herald News on Jan. 5, 2025, and postings on the bulletin board at Clifton City Hall and the City of Clifton website.

The statement responded to the council’s opening procedural business and explained how the city published its annual schedule of meetings and posted a specific notice the Friday before this meeting. The staff member said, "Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the annual notes of where we scheduled meetings of the municipal council for the year 2024, which was published as a legal advertisement in the Herald News on Jan. 5, 2025," and that "further notice of this meeting was given on the Friday prior to the meeting by posting said notice on the bulletin board at Clifton City Hall and on the City of Clifton website."

A council member briefly acknowledged there were matters besides revenue to address at the meeting, saying, "that we have to talk about here besides just revenue. Okay. Thank you very much." The transcript does not record any motions or votes related to meeting notice, nor does it record a challenge to the adequacy of the notice.

The notice statement is procedural: public-notice practices affect whether meetings meet open-meetings expectations and how the public learns of council business. The record excerpt provided here documents the staff assertion of compliance; the transcript does not show additional documentary proof (for example, a copy of the advertisement) nor any formal council action accepting or disputing the notice.

No follow-up direction or formal decision about the notice was recorded during the excerpted portion of the meeting.