A resident, identified in the meeting as Mr. Walter, used the public-participation period to critique the county’s budget booklet and broadband targets.

Walter said he had read the budget executive summary (the resident referred to the full packet) and recommended several format changes to make the document more usable: include photos of elected officials (he said the eight officials could fit on a page), reorganize certain pages into column layouts, expand and label maps to show the county’s full geographic influence, include dates on data tables and clearly label acronyms with a standalone glossary. He also said many charts were too small to read and suggested using landscape layout for tables that shrink poorly.

On broadband, Walter said the budget’s cited target of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) was outdated and urged the county to aim for higher speeds, noting performance limitations in some households. He said he would continue his comments at a future meeting. No county action was taken during the meeting on these requests.