September 10, 2023  SEONews

Polk commissioner vote against making public notices digital only – The Ledger

After impassioned pleas from some community members and local media outlets, the Polk County Commission voted to continue to advertise important public business in newspapers.

With a 3-2 vote, a proposal to stop putting public notices in newspapers and instead launch a county-run website to post them died – at least for now.

The vote occurred Tuesday during a regularly scheduled meeting – which had been advertised in a newspaper – of the Polk County Commission at the County Administration Building in Bartow.

Commission Chairman George Lindsey and Commissioners Martha Santiago and Neil Combee voted against circumventing newspapers by creating the county website for public notices. Combee’s vote was surprising, considering his public comments seemed to be in favor of the proposal. During the commissioner comment part of the meeting, Combee seemed confused about the vote he had cast earlier.

During an exchange between Combee and Lindsey, the chair explained, “The decision today was to…

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