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Residents press council on email transparency; council schedules joint hearing on growth-area map amid new state law
Summary
Residents asked council to post internal emails and flagged a FOIA cost estimate; a resident also urged postponing growth-area work in light of new state legislation (LD 2173). Council voted to post materials and scheduled a joint public hearing on June 16 to solicit public input and invited educational presentations.
Residents at the South Berwick council meeting raised concerns about email-based decision-making and recent changes in state housing law, prompting the council to post materials ahead of a planned workshop and schedule a joint public hearing with the planning board.
Ammer Steinhower told the council he had filed a Freedom of Access Act request after seeing references to email exchanges that were not included in meeting packets. He said IT estimated "about 50,000 emails," and objected to residents…
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