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Council member visits Renaissance Board to explain Open Meetings Act and city recording policy
Summary
Council member Adam Blau told the Renaissance Board the city's interpretation of the Open Meetings Act supports recording municipal boards and executive-session exemptions; board members asked for legal clarifications about whether volunteer boards that don't control budgets must be recorded. The council and mayor have directed videotaping "until further notice."
Adam Blau, a Fort Thomas council member, attended the Renaissance Board meeting to explain the city's interpretation of the Open Meetings Act and to answer members' questions about a new policy to videotape municipal boards.
"Anything that has to do with any kind of city funding or budget, at all ... is required to be open," Blau told the board, summarizing his understanding of the statute and the city's approach. He said he had consulted the Kentucky League of Cities and city attorney Brandon Volker and distributed printed…
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