Supervisor: staff found missing permit file and will seek grant to digitize records

Jul 9, 2026

Supervisor Babs Neilsfield's letter, read into the record, praised staff recovery of a misfiled Foxfire permit and said she is exploring a grant to digitize past permits to ensure public access to records requested by residents.

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Supervisor Babs Neilsfield sent a letter that was read into the July 8 meeting record, thanking staff for locating a misfiled Foxfire special permit and describing time spent responding to a resident's FOIL request. The letter praised the planner's efforts to reconstruct missing minutes and records and said the supervisor is exploring a grant to digitize past permits so citizens do not face the same barriers to official documents in the future.

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