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Wright County board accepts workshop recommendations, debates newspaper publication of minutes
Summary
The board approved workshop minutes and recommendations including audit presentation deadlines for the county fair board and a request for an RFP on employment and training services; commissioners also discussed state statute requirements to publish minutes in a local newspaper and the county's move to shorten minutes to save costs.
The Wright County Board unanimously approved workshop minutes and recommendations Monday and debated whether the county should continue publishing full meeting minutes in a local newspaper, a practice some commissioners said is required by state statute.
The board accepted several recommendations from a May 13 workshop: requiring the completion of the 2023 audit and presentation to the finance department before the 2025 fair-board funds are released; adopting a revised budget amendment workflow and monitoring its implementation; issuing an RFP to seek alternate vendors for employment and training services within Health and Human Services; and continued work on meeting-minute formats.
Commissioner Hall (full name not provided in the transcript) and Commissioner Moyna discussed cost pressures tied to printing full minutes in a local paper. "The reason that we've consolidated the minutes is because of the cost," a commissioner said, adding that some counties lack local papers and must use larger circulating newspapers. Another commissioner noted state statute requires publishing minutes in the local newspaper and said they "adamantly oppose" moving solely to online posting when statute requires printed publication.
Board members ultimately voted to approve the workshop minutes and recommendations unanimously. The board also approved a motion to refer a separate item — restrictions on common-access lake lots and broader ordinance rewrites — to the revisers committee for further study and scheduling with planning and zoning staff.
