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Red Bank board discusses recent changes to Open Public Meetings Act and online notice requirements
Summary
Board members reviewed amendments to the Open Public Meetings Act affecting how municipalities advertise meetings, including requirements to post notices on municipal websites and a transition on the state site; the board designated official newspapers and discussed compliance steps.
During its Jan. 15 reorganizational meeting the Red Bank Zoning Board of Adjustment reviewed recent amendments to the state’s Open Public Meetings Act that change how municipal meetings must be advertised.
A speaker explained that the statute now requires municipalities to post meeting notices in a conspicuous location on their municipal websites and clarified that some state-level website functionality is not yet available. The speaker noted that the change was prompted in part by a shift of some newspapers to online-only publication and that municipal websites must include legal notices and archived notices for a required retention period.
Board members asked staff to ensure the municipal site has a clear category for legal notices, to keep archived notices visible as the statute requires, and to publish notices twice per month as part of the new routine outlined by counsel and staff.
The board designated River Times and Asbury Park as official papers for the year and discussed the practical steps the municipal clerk would take to comply with the new posting requirements.
The board’s discussion focused on administrative compliance; no formal change to municipal policy was adopted at the meeting beyond the designation of official newspapers and direction to staff to maintain conspicuous postings.
