Community Corner
School Committee and Open Meeting Law
Last night at the school committee
meeting, the chair of the SC
announced that there had been
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an open meeting violation
filed and completed.
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Actually there were two.
The first was for having an
executive session
meeting to discuss wages
for Teaching
Assistants and Cafeteria
workers.
The second was for not
providing the minutes in
a timely fashion and
not providing them to a
citizen upon request in
a timely fashion.
The AG did find that
both violations
did happen but considers
neither to be intentional,
and “we commend the
Committee for
acknowledging the
latter violation
and adopting a policy
intended to prevent
similar violations
in the future”
However there are
six footnotes
in the finding which
point to the
In the banner near the top of the page,
click on Government Resources
Then click on
Open Meeting Law
On the page that opens
In the column named,
Date of Determination
scan down to
and click on 03/24/2014
The letter of determination
will either open or download
as a pdf to you machine.
Please read it carefully.
If you have a problem
getting it,