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Grand Island board to reissue public‑hearing notice after local paper missed edition
Summary
During a reorganization workshop, the Grand Island Town Board discussed replacing a notice normally placed in the Island Dispatch with the Buffalo News after the Dispatch did not publish and agreed to reschedule a public hearing whose date field was blank in a drafted resolution.
The Grand Island Town Board discussed rescheduling a public hearing and reissuing its legal notice after the Island Dispatch did not publish an expected edition, board members said during a reorganization workshop.
Board members reviewed a drafted resolution that lacked a hearing date and discussed filling the blank line for the “date of the hearing.” At one point a date of Tuesday the 21st at 8 p.m. was raised for insertion; elsewhere in the meeting a participant said the hearing was already scheduled for Tuesday the 25th at 8 p.m. The transcript does not identify which remark came from which person.
The board discussed publication options after the Island Dispatch did not publish the week the notice was to run. Staff reported contacting the Buffalo News and speaking with Peter Godfrey at that paper to arrange publication. Board members said the board will designate a newspaper in the reorganization materials; if the adopted reorganization lists the Island Dispatch by name it will need to be corrected because the Dispatch did not publish the notice.
Members reiterated that the municipal publication deadline remains Tuesday for copy submission; staff said the Town had occasionally received some brief “wiggle room” in the past but that no such flexibility applied this instance. The board directed that the resolution to reschedule the hearing be adopted and that the notice be published using a paper that will accept the legal notice, with the hearing date to be filled in when the resolution is finalized.
Background: local governments often must publish legal notices in a designated newspaper to meet requirements for public hearings. The board did not cite a specific statute in the discussion and did not take a final recorded vote on adoption of the hearing resolution during the portion of the transcript provided.
The board moved on to other reorganization items after resolving how to handle the publication issue and the blank hearing date.
