Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Committee Governance topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Committee meeting marked by procedural disputes over membership, minutes and agenda notice
Summary
Several supervisors clashed over whether citizen members could be removed without agenda notice, the accuracy of minutes, and how resolutions should be routed to corporation counsel.
The Adams County Land and Water Committee meeting featured repeated procedural disputes over committee membership, agenda notice and the accuracy of minutes.
Early in the meeting Supervisor Posdolski raised concerns about two citizen members (Barbara Morgan and Mary Lou Paylor), asserting they were being misidentified as county supervisors and moving to “strike the two citizen members.” The chair ruled the motion out of order and said membership changes would require placement on a future agenda and follow-up with corporation counsel. Committee members repeatedly told Posdolski the roll call was to note attendance, not to remove or change membership.
Later the committee debated whether the minutes from the previous meeting accurately reflected earlier discussions. Posdolski said material items were missing from the draft minutes and requested a roll-call vote to approve them; the committee conducted a roll-call vote and the minutes were approved with recorded yes and no votes (Supervisor Grabarski yes; Supervisor Posdolski no; Mary Lou Paylor yes; John West yes).
Supervisors raised concerns about inconsistent scheduling and calendar notices for committee meetings; Item scheduling was discussed and a future meeting was set for May 6 at 3:00 p.m. Several members asked that cancellations or changes be marked clearly on the county calendar. A separate motion to add a standing “correspondence” item to future agendas failed for lack of a second.
Multiple supervisors repeatedly emphasized that board rules require corporation counsel and county administration review and signatures for resolutions before submission to the clerk’s office. That rule was cited during debate on two resolutions later in the meeting; in one case the committee approved forwarding a resolution contingent on corporation counsel review rather than approving it outright.
The chair repeatedly directed members to follow established agenda and rule procedures and to bring membership-change motions to a properly noticed meeting. No membership changes were made during the session.
