Pleasantville Reduces Meeting Schedule
Pleasantville residents might be seeing less of their village board next year.
The village board is reducing its meeting schedule from four meetings to two on a trial basis starting in January.
Currently, the village board meets every Monday, with work sessions on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, and televised meetings on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
At last Monday’s work session, village trustees expressed concern that the number and length of meetings might be turnoff to people looking to join the board in the future.
Mayor Peter Scherer said the village would put together a meeting schedule for next year that would have two meetings a month, with additional work sessions sprinkled in when necessary.
Many meetings start at 7 p.m. and can run until 11 p.m. or even go on after midnight.
“There’s an awful lot to be discussed,” Scherer said. “In many cases a rambling discussion turns out to be a useful discussion, but other times we have a rambling discussion that doesn’t go anywhere, but we don’t want to scrub the world of that.”
Read more in the November 29 edition of The Examiner.
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