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Pine County board adopts updated operating guidelines with clarified statutory citations

Pine County Board of Commissioners · February 4, 2026
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Summary

The Pine County Board approved revised operating guidelines that add a prohibition on slander in public forum language and replace vague wording with a requirement that amendments require a 'simple majority vote of the members'; county attorney recommended technical statutory citation updates which were incorporated.

The Pine County Board voted to adopt revised county board operating guidelines after staff incorporated Committee of the Whole comments and the county attorney suggested technical edits. The changes include a public forum provision stating it is unacceptable for speakers to slander or engage in character assassination, clarified mileage and expense-submit language, and…

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