City report disappears into the ether
A recent planning board public hearing on Oct. 15 removed a previous city planner’s report that had been part of the public record.
The project is for an urgent care facility. In September, when the project went before the planning board for determination of completeness, there was a report in the agenda from Anne Marie Skinner, the most recent city planner to leave the city.
In the October planning board’s agenda, her report is no longer available and the staff report for the October planning board meeting has not been identified as being revised.
You cannot compare the two reports. Going to the city’s website and accessing the agenda for the September report a message appears that “This record is currently unavailable.”
However the section of the revised report that came from the engineering department appears to have been left intact.
Usually, a report from a city department is attributed to the department and the individual who wrote the report. The first section of the October report only attributes the report to the planning department.
And it is unusual to not see the original report in the agenda with the second report identified as a revised report.
So why did the city erase the original report, a public document, and why did the city not notice the second report as a revised report? This certainly challenges the city’s mantra of open and transparent.