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Benton County advisory committee seeks formal recognition, updates bylaws and public-records access
Summary
Members of a reactivated Benton County Community Advisory Committee discussed formal acknowledgment by county commissioners, updating bylaws to reflect an expanded role for the unincorporated community, and improving access to meeting minutes and recordings.
Benton County's Community Advisory Committee (CAC) met recently to press for formal recognition by the county, to begin rewriting outdated bylaws and to clarify how meeting minutes and recordings will be posted and preserved.
Committee members said formal acknowledgement by the county would allow the CAC to pursue funding and work directly with county departments. Petra, a county staff member, told the group she will meet the assistant county administrator the following day to seek a timeframe for acknowledgment and said, "I will talk to the assistant county administrator tomorrow and actually have an answer for you in terms of the potential time frame for you all to be represented."
The discussion focused on three linked issues: (1) the CAC's legal/administrative status and bylaws, (2) public-records practices for minutes and recordings under updated public meeting rules, and (3) next steps and…
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