Meeting minutes

Letter: Your opinion piece on the inability of Riverhead Town to keep meeting minutes was really shocking.

Riverhead’s loss of meaningful Town Board minutes is not a minor change. It is a blow to open, accountable government — and to local history.

Riverhead Town Clerk James Wooten says the town is looking to bring back verbatim transcripts of meeting proceedings, including comments by members of the public made during public hearings and other public portions of the meetings, using artificial intelligence for transcription.