After concern over whether residents got enough say in solar panel regulations proposed by a Lexington council “work group,” the city’s Urban County Council will consider putting new rules and definitions in place for these groups and task forces.
Council frequently uses these meeting bodies, but their rules are currently hazy, leading some open government attorneys to raise concern that these groups meeting in private violates the Kentucky Open Records Act.
Vice Mayor Dan Wu placed the topic in the council’s General Government and Planning Committee during a Tuesday council work session “in an effort to more clearly define and codify into council rules in regards to work groups, working groups, task forces and the like,” he said in the meeting. It is unclear what those rules might look like…