Town Of Oriental Releases (Some) Records Of South Avenue Closed Meetings

Last night, a special meeting of the Town of Oriental Board of Commissioners voted to release some of the records of closed meetings concerning South Avenue that I requested in June and July.

There appear to be some anomalies. I will probably have more to say about them later. One anomaly was mentioned last night by Town Dock.

At least two of the records I requested have not been provided: 1) the record of the closed meeting of January 13, 2012, which was the first Board action revealing the idea of "sale or exchange" of real property; and 2) the closed meeting of July 9, 2012, which has never been explained. Not only that, the Town of Oriental web site does not include any minutes of the open portion of the special meeting held that date, recording the motion to go into closed session and the reasons therefore.

My own blog entries for July 9, 2012 record the only information ever provided to the public about that meeting, which lasted for an hour and a half. I do know that at the August meeting of the Board the Board approved minutes for the July 3 public hearing on South Avenue that falsify what went on at that meeting. I have the Town's own audio recording of the July 3 meeting.

http://mile181.blogspot.com/2012/07/south-avenue-special-meeting-july-9.html

http://mile181.blogspot.com/2012/07/thoughts-on-todays-south-avenue-meeting.html