Community Corner
School Committee and Open Meeting Law Violations
Last night at the school committee meeting,
the chair of the SC announced that there
had been an open meeting violation
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filed and completed. Actually there were two.
The first was for having an executive session
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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
seriousness of the violations.
To complete finding can be found at
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 middle
column named Open Meeting Law Resources
Click on Browse OML Determinations
In the column named, Date of Determination
scan down to and click on 03/24/2014
The letter of determination will either o
pen or download as a pdf to you machine.
Please read it carefully.