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Public urges clearer financial reports and better audio/visual access for Dorchester 02 meetings
Summary
During public comment, a resident told the finance committee that the district’s transparency reports are hard for nonexperts to use and asked the board to post explanatory material before meetings, simplify slides for remote viewers, and present periodic contract cost breakdowns; staff said the state prescribes the transparency-report format.
A member of the public urged the Dorchester 02 finance committee to make financial information more accessible to residents, calling current transparency reports difficult to understand and asking the district to post plain-language materials before meetings.
During public comment the speaker said, "The transparency reports are functionally useless in my opinion... you have to be like a genius on the outside to figure out what's going on," and recommended providing a…
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