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Grand Jury Investigation

A Times-Union report in June documented dozens of meetings about public business held without public notice or written minutes and several meetings in private places, a violation of the city's ethics code. It also uncovered a deeply flawed system of notifying the public of meetings. The grand jury is now investigating the notification and documentation.

Blog by Beth Kormanik

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Keeping up with the council

Shad left at 12:30 p.m. with his attorney.

The grand jury investigation is not the only thing to come from the Times-Union sunshine story. The council has made several changes in how it conducts business, including posting all public meeting notices online. You can find them here:

http://apps.coj.net/CouncilPublicNotices/MembersWithMeetings/ShowMembersWithMeetingsTablePage.aspx

Not the most easy-to-navigate site. Click the magnifying glass to see the meeting for a particular council member. If you want to see meetings listed by date, go to the "MEETINGS" link at the top of the page, or click here:

http://apps.coj.net/CouncilPublicNotices/Meetings/ShowMeetingsTablePage.aspx)

You'll have to click back a few pages to get to more timely meetings... unless you're really curious about committee meetings scheduled in December.

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