Resident asks why planning and zoning notice appeared late on city website

Charlene Bennett told the commission she discovered a planning and zoning board notice had been published in a newspaper but was not available on the City of Lake Wales website until two days after the meeting. Bennett said she did not attend because she could not find the agenda online and that she had filed a public records request but did not receive a clear response about whether the meeting had been legally posted.

"I come here to get some clarification about the legality of postings of meeting notices, City commission, planning, zoning," Bennett said, adding that Florida's Sunshine Law does not require municipal website postings but that she was unsure what the city holds itself to as an internal practice. Commissioners acknowledged the concern, asked staff to check posting practices and indicated staff would follow up on the public records request and clarify the city's internal website-posting standards.