Meetings Canceled Following Bourne Website Outage
Municipal meetings scheduled to be held tomorrow, Tuesday, April 23, have been canceled following the Town of Bourne website outage on Friday, April 19.
Bourne's municipal website crashed sometime before 10:30 AM on Friday morning, disabling site access for the rest of that day and most of Saturday, April 20.
Both Barnstable County IT and CivicPlus, the town's website provider, were working to resolve the issue as of midday on Friday, and connection was restored on Saturday evening between 8 and 9 PM.
The website's outage on Friday meant that a number of public meeting agendas were not able to be posted that day. Per the section of Massachusetts General Law commonly referred to as Open Meeting Law, all public bodies must post a meeting notice and agenda via the Town Clerk at least 48 hours prior to all meetings. The 48-hour period excludes weekends, meaning that all meetings originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, had to be cancelled to comply with Open Meeting Law.
The canceled meetings include the School Council of the Bourne Middle School School, the Bourne School Committee's curriculum subcommittee meeting, the design review committee, the historical commission, the Bourne Board of Assessors, and an executive session of the Bourne Select Board. Agendas for each of these meetings can be found at the town's website, but none of the meetings will take place on Tuesday as scheduled.
Meetings scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, will be held as planned.