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Residents press council on records access, housing authority appointments and youth advisory board age
Summary
During public comment, residents asked why council members reportedly struggle to obtain records, urged recusal from housing-authority appointments, and advocated lowering the youth-advisory-board age to include mature middle-schoolers.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the Sunnyside City Council meeting on May 27 to press the council on records access, possible conflicts involving housing-authority appointments and the proposed youth advisory board’s minimum age.
Sharon Dolan, a Sunnyside resident, asked why council members must file public-records requests to obtain documents and criticized a public statement by the city manager saying staff needed to close to fulfill a council member’s request. Dolan said the optics of the leadership team not sitting with council at the previous meeting created a perception of disunity and asked…
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