The Presque Isle City Council on Wednesday rescinded its approval of a new airline recommendation process for the Presque Isle International Airport that experts say violated Maine’s open meeting law.

The council reversed its decision by a unanimous 7-0 vote in a special meeting, less than two weeks after the Bangor Daily News began asking questions about the policy’s legality.

“I can admit when I made a mistake, and I made a mistake on this,” Harold Hull, one of three councilors who originally voted to approve the policy, said. “I misunderstood some elements of the policy and I should have asked more questions and done more due diligence.”

City attorney Richard Currier recommended the council rescind the policy in an Aug. 11 memo, writing that meetings of the Presque Isle City Coun

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