Availability of Meeting Minutes From State Agencies

Ian Lind today looks at various websites of state agencies to check the availability of their meeting minutes. (I added URLs--P.Z.):

So, with a few minutes to spare yesterday afternoon, I browsed more or less randomly through some state agency web sites to see if they include meeting minutes. Names of agencies with minutes available online appear in green, while those with no minutes, or minutes I couldn't find, appear in red.

Employee-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund: Minutes are available. Last minutes for May 10, 2006 meeting, which could have been the most recent. Committee minutes from 2005 are available but none from 2006. No list of meeting dates or agendas [sic] is provided. Instead, a link is provided to a centralized state central calendar, which is not particularly convenient.

Hawaiian Homes Commission: No minutes, despite its immediate impact on thousands of people.

Ethics Commission: No minutes.

Land Use Commission: Minutes appear to be up to date. Latest minutes for meeting August 25. Next meeting was Sept 7, and those minutes would not be due until this week.

High Technology Development Corporation- No minutes

State Foundation on Culture and the Arts--Web page for commission meetings "under construction". No minutes.

Board of Education: Minutes appear current for both the board and its committees.

Board of Agriculture. No minutes. Instead, an agenda that includes "actions taken" but do not contain all the information required by law to be included in minutes.

Procurement Policy Board. Latest minutes, July 13, 2006.

State Procurement Office, The Community Council on Purchases of Health and Human Services. Minutes are available with the latest for a meeting on July 27.

Aloha Tower Development Corporation. Lists link to agenda and minutes, but no minutes are actually included there and only the latest agenda (9/27/06) is listed, so its impossible to even check what business was dealt with at prior meetings.

Hawaii Tourism Authority. HTA does include both agendas [sic] and minutes, although they are buried down several levels below the home page. But the latest available are for a meeting on June 1, 2006, while the link to minutes for July 13, 2006 brings an error message.

Hawaii Community Development Authority. Minutes appear up to date with latest from September 6 meeting.

Hawaii Film Office Development Board. Neither minutes nor agenda are available.

Employee Retirement System. No minutes, no agenda.

Professional and Vocational Licensing Boards of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. There are 26 boards. [Note: According to the site itself, there are 25--P.Z.] None appear to post minutes.

From this quick spot check, it appears that only a minority of state boards make minutes available on their web sites in a timely fashion.
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How many of the agencies of the County of Hawaii post minutes and agenda online? I might try to find out.