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Cary officials favor one‑way government social posts; board backs updating communications plan
Summary
Trustees reviewed a new village communications plan and signaled support for using social platforms as a government broadcast tool rather than an interactive forum, while directing staff to bring a revised social-media policy for formal approval.
Trustees on Cary’s Committee of the Whole reviewed a proposed village communications plan on June 17 and broadly favored treating the village’s social channels as a one‑way government communications tool rather than an interactive public forum.
Assistant Administrator Radcliffe presented the plan, saying it covers purpose, external communications, media‑relations protocols, graphic standards and a social‑media policy. Radcliffe told trustees the plan would standardize messaging and visual identity and update the village’s social-media approach, which the staff adopted in 2019.
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