Oddities: 2 - Prodigal Documents

Late last summer I raised the issue of closed session minutes. We discussed the issue at the Town Board meeting September 1, 2009 and agreed to proceed with efforts to open minutes no longer required to be closed.

At the Town Board meeting of October 6, it was revealed that the book containing the minutes could not be located. At the November 10 meeting, commissioners were given a packet of closed minutes to review. I noted that minutes of some closed sessions seemed to be missing. The town staff conducted a search of computer records and were able to reprint most of the missing minutes, but signed copies were still not found.

At the Town Board meeting of December 1, the outgoing board opened some of the formerly closed minutes to the public. The missing signed copies had still not been found.

After Christmas weekend of 2009, I learned, the missing notebook reappeared in the office. The fixed asset ledger which couldn't be found during the audit has also reappeared.

Whoever knows where the documents had gone and how they were returned hasn't disclosed the information, to the best of my knowledge. Why would anyone remove the notebooks from Town Hall? I don't have any idea. The documents themselves remain silent.

Another odd event.