From a March 26, 2015 Hampshire Gazette editorial:
It’s not shocking that several public officials stood up at a public meeting to complain that the state’s Open Meeting Law is cumbersome and confusing.
What is shocking is that they derided it as “unfair and undemocratic” and claimed that a request for meeting minutes is tantamount to harassment.
Even more shocking is that in a room full of 100 elected and appointed public officials from Hampshire and Franklin counties, these comments elicited applause.
What is going on there?
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Well, it is nearly impossible to be able to provide minutes of a meeting. One would have to attend, pay attention, and be able to write things down from time to time when they seemed important.
In order to do this, that person would have to have had to go to something called school, where they were taught to take notes, and write sentences. Maybe even paragraphs.
It’s quite a high bar.
And why would anyone ever want them? Who could possibly have a need to go review the record years in the future? Do they expect people to be interested in history, or to have some need to look at what was done a few months ago?
They should get rid of meeting minutes, but they should do it by ending the practice of having meetings.