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wrote about this earlier, but would welcome input from all corners. Especially this one.
There's a story in today's paper suggesting that a Chamber of Commerce meeting, where tax policy was discussed, should have been subject to the open meetings law.
Since the Chamber of Commerce has no power to enact City policy, it seems silly to me that it was even written about to begin with.
Yep, it seemed pretty stupid to me too, but I'm not an attorney nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Had these been elected officials...or if a few of them had been elected officials, I could understand the concern.
By the way, there is a meeting at my house this evening concerning whether or not we will be going to war over the Iranian nuke program. Hope that's not a violation of anything.
I have two problems. First the story said that 2 officials objected. The folks who objected did not seem to official on anything.
However, their point is that the Chamber was requested to come up with ideas by the city and therefore those discussions should be public. That is ridiculous since the city asks for a lot of stuff from consultant reports to requests for bid responses. These "officials" are saying that any preparation that goes on in an outside firm as preparation to a response to a city request is an open government meeting. Me thinks that pulled that from where the sun (rightfully) don't shine.
BTW...that unofficial world domination meeting is BYOB.
I could never figure out who the two officials were. Did I miss something in the article? If so, who are the officials? I have my ideas.
The "officials" are..."Rick Hollow, general counsel for the Tennessee Press Association in Knoxville, and Frank Gibson, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government in Nashville."
Officiality is in the eye of the reporter.
I was reading into it that it was two of our local officials who complained and it was taken to counsel. I must be reading more into it.
There were no local "officials."
If you had complained and offered a job title you probably would have bee referred too as an "official."
Daco, I think you should be an official.
Damn str8 bubba. You gotta know I'm an "official."