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Commissioners approve accessibility edits to rules of procedure and amend FOIA language
Summary
Board members agreed to clean up formatting, correct committee names and add accessibility features to the rules of procedure; the board also moved to amend FOIA procedures language to reflect that the Board of Commissioners, not the chairperson, is the "head of the public body" for appeal purposes.
The board discussed and approved procedural edits to the county's rules of procedure intended primarily to modernize formatting, add a table of contents, include cross-references and improve digital accessibility so screen readers can navigate the document.
Commissioners walked through suggested name corrections and committee lists (for example, removing defunct committees such as a jail committee and landfill steering committee, renaming existing commissions to their current titles, and clarifying statutory committees). Board members asked staff to correct committee names on pages identified in the draft and to mark inactive or "wish list" committees accordingly.
Separately, the board voted to amend section 8 of the FOIA procedures to strike references to the “chairperson of the board of commissioners” and substitute language consistent with FOIA that designates the board of commissioners (the public body) as the head of the public body for appeals. County staff said this change corrects a legal inaccuracy in the draft policy and does not change the day-to-day appeals process for requesters.
No formal change to the board's overall governance (such as Robert's Rules of Order usage) was adopted beyond the formatting and accessibility edits; commissioners agreed further substantive revisions could follow after cleanup.
