Sudbury subcommittee recommends rescinding outdated policies, directs staff to publish current policies online

The Town of Sudbury Policies & Procedures Subcommittee on Dec. 20 recommended that the full select board rescind a slate of outdated or operational policies and directed staff to assemble and publish current policies in a single online location.

Cardi, who led a demonstration of a prototype web listing built from the committee’s spreadsheet of policies, said the prototype is intended to give each policy a single link and an adopted date so the town can keep documents current. "We—ve cut down a lot of the hunting and packing work that Meghan would've had to do," he said, arguing the consolidated listing will make staff work easier and make the town—s policy record more accessible.

The committee voted to recommend rescission of a list of policies the subcommittee judged operational, duplicate or obsolete, and separately recommended rescission of a bundle of items that the town…