Last Tuesday’s Council meeting got off to a confusing start due to 50 pages of corrections to the proposed city budget that were handed to Councilors just as the meeting was to start. Councilor Erik Gitschier said this was unfair to Councilors and to the public who had not had a chance to review accurate budget numbers. He asked the City Solicitor if changing the figures like that just as the meeting started violated the Open Meeting Law. The City Solicitor said that since the bottom line of the budget was the same in the original document as it was in the recently revised version, the corrected material did not limit the Council’s legal authority to go forward.
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