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Resident questions meeting notice timing under New York Open Meetings Law
Summary
During public comment, resident Liz Formos said the Jan. 1 meeting notice did not appear at least 72 hours before the meeting as required by New York Public Officers Law Article 7, section 104, and asked for the affidavit of publication; she also asked whether the Town of Milton had approved the intermunicipal agreement.
During the Village of Ballston Spa's Jan. 1 organizational meeting, resident Liz Formos of 89 Hyde used the public comment period to raise two procedural questions.
First, Formos cited New York Public Officers Law, Article 7, section 104, saying that "public notice of the time and place of the meeting scheduled at least 1 week prior . . . or electronically transmitted to news media and shall be conspicuously posted in 1 or more designated public locations at least 72 hours before such meeting." She said she had found notice only in the Gazette published the day before the meeting and asked the board to provide the affidavit of publication or tear sheet for the Jan. 1 organizational meeting notice.
Second, Formos asked about the intermunicipal agreement with the Town of Milton: whether Milton had already approved the draft and what area District 3 covers, including whether districts had been redrawn.
The transcript does not show the board producing an affidavit of publication during the meeting nor a definitive statement on whether the Town of Milton had completed its approval of the intermunicipal agreement at that time.
Formos's questions raise a procedural record point that the board or clerk's office can address by posting or producing the affidavit of publication and confirming the status of Milton's internal approvals.
