[MassHistPres] legal decision making

[Tom Keyes]

Preservation Commissions, Historic Commissions, Planning Boards, or any
other Board or Committee in a municipality, whether elected or appointed,
must follow the open meeting laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

 

All votes must be taken in a regularly scheduled public meeting.

 

This is done to ensure an open and honest process and allow for
accountability to the individual with authority.

 

 

KQS - Management System Development / Ethics & Operational Excellence

 

Thomas F. Keyes, Pres. KQS

Consulting / Contract Services / Ethics & Compliance / Auditing

P.O. Box 375, Sandwich, MA  02563  508-737-0244

 

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." - Aristotle

 

From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Marcia Starkey
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 4:57 PM
To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: [MassHistPres] legal decision making

 

Hello,

 

When a preservation commission must vote on a decision in the presence of an
involved party, are there professional practices it could follow? Can the
vote be written rather than verbal ?

Does anyone have a rule or regulation that addresses this point? 

 

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield 

unaffiliated 

          



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