EDC weighs faster notifications but staff warns about FOIA and record-keeping

Members proposed a group text or chat to speed meeting notices and simple one-way alerts; the consensus was to combine formal email for agenda distribution with an informal text group for reminders. Commissioners stressed the need to avoid deliberation in electronic platforms and to use them for announcements only.

Town staff cautioned that municipality-run social accounts and group communications are subject to Freedom of Information requirements and that records must be preserved for FOIA searches. As one staff speaker warned, such requests can be time-consuming: "...they want to see all the documents and they'll freedom of information request it," the staff member said, urging careful administrative oversight of accounts and nested portfolio administration for social pages.