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San Juan County commissioners review draft Policies, Procedures and Rules; vote deferred for missing member
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a consolidated draft of the county's Policies, Procedures and Rules to bring the board into compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act; members raised formatting, clarity, quorum and conflict-of-interest concerns and agreed to revisit the document with absent Commissioner Harvey's input.
San Juan County commissioners spent a substantial portion of their Feb. 3 work session reviewing a consolidated draft of the county's Policies, Procedures and Rules intended to align internal governance with state open-meetings requirements. The draft, prepared and circulated by staff and reviewed with outside counsel, was presented to the board for feedback but not finalized.
The draft was introduced by staff and a NEWAC-affiliated consultant; the presenter said commissioners had been asked to email proposed edits but none were returned. One commissioner said the copy included structural errors, duplicate lettering, blank subsections and grammatical mistakes, and asked for more time to review…
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