Is the agency or body required to make the record or minutes of a public proceeding available to the public?
Yes. Any legally required record or minutes of a public proceeding must be made promptly and shall be open to public inspection. In addition, every agency is required to make a written record of any decision that involves conditional approval or denial of any application, license, certificate or other type of permit and to make those decisions publicly available, 1 M.R.S.A. 403, 407; 5 M.R.S.A. 9059 (3).
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