San Juan County commissioners continue line-by-line overhaul of meeting procedures

San Juan County commissioners spent a March 17, 2026 work session reviewing a proposed overhaul of the commission’s procedures and policies, debating who authored the draft, how legal review should work and how to handle agenda and public-comment rules.

The session opened at 9 a.m. and moved through the document paragraph by paragraph. Commissioner Mon called the meeting to order and asked legal staff to walk the commission through the draft. Commissioners pressed for clarity on the draft’s provenance after a cover letter implied much of the work came from a private risk-management consultant, Johnny Miller. One commissioner said the cover letter “tells me that most of the work was done by Johnny Miller’s office,” and asked how many sessions Miller attended. The county attorney’s presenter responded that the county attorney’s office and the consultants provided a starting point and that “the document’s yours to go through,” adding that staff are available for follow-up edits.

Commissioners agreed to several concrete edits and clarifications. They directed staff to standardize citations to Utah law (consistent use of “UCA” or a spelled-out section),…