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Council to discuss email transparency after member compiles months of substantive exchanges
Summary
A councilor asked the board to consider amending its rules to limit substantive policymaking by email and to place council emails on the public record; the council voted to add the item to the March 24 agenda and staff disclosed a FOIA request seeking council emails back to November.
A South Berwick councilor raised concerns on March 10 that substantive council discussions increasingly are happening by email rather than in public meetings and asked the council to add a rules amendment to its March 24 agenda to address the practice.
The councilor said they had compiled roughly 95 pages of email correspondence in which council business was discussed since the…
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