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Supervisors agree to confirm consent before reading emailed comments into public record
Summary
After public comment and discussion under old business, the board agreed as a practice to obtain consent before reading a resident's emailed comment into the meeting record and to read such comments either during public comment or the related agenda item; the solicitor said the board has no obligation to read emails but recommended the consent step as a courtesy.
Montgomery Township supervisors on March 23 discussed how the board should handle emailed letters or excerpts that supervisors or staff read aloud during meetings and reached a board-level practice: when written communications are to be read into the public record staff or a supervisor will first seek consent from the author and, if read aloud, do so during the public comment period or the relevant…
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