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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Saturday, January 26, 2008

Public Records Disclosure #8 The Ongoing Denial of Information

In my original submission, I requested an opportunity to review Selectmen's Meeting Minutes of EXECUTIVE SESSIONS that have become public records.
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Here's what the Secretary of State has to say:
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Minutes of executive session meetings must be reviewed and released
regularly and promptly. Executive session minutes must be released to the
public as soon as the stated purpose for the executive session protection has
ceased.
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That request has been ignored.
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Since meeting minutes are posted on the Town's Web Site, except for the sporadic posting for the last 3 months, there might be a reasonable expectation that, as Executive Sessions become public, they should also be posted.

3 comments:

Mark Belanger said...

I couldn't agree more.

There is (presumably) a lot of important stuff going on in executive session. People who are interested in town matters are missing a big chunk of the picture without (eventual) access to this information.

Middleboro Review said...

This is not/was not a FISHING EXPEDITION.

There are things YOU, as a taxpayer need to know about how your tax dollars have been misspent.

You might like to see the meeting minutes that discussed when a NEW Town Employee was hired at Step 5, and ultimately grieved to the NLRB with Labor Counsel representing the Town. The Town lost.

Money well spent?

And there's much else!

Stay tuned!

Anonymous said...

Mass General Law Chapter 39: Section 23B.

"that the records of any executive session may remain secret as long as publication may defeat the lawful purposes of the executive session, but no longer."

http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/39-23b.htm

I guess LAW does not apply to the Middlboro BOS.