Sunday, February 22, 2009

Audit Committee Meeting violates the law?

The APS Audit Committee met last Thursday. The meeting
was closed according to the following agenda item.

II. Executive Session pursuant to (§ 10-15-1 (H) (2))
for the purpose of discussing limited personnel matters
in connection with Internal Audit.
Except that the Audit Committee has no business discussing
"personnel matters", limited or otherwise.

The Committee's charge is limited to review and discussion
of audits and whistleblower complaints. Board Policy reads;
... review and recommend approval or action(s)
associated with the District’s Annual Audit, any internal
audit(s), audits associated with the Capital Outlay and
Technology, and any employee whistleblower complaints.
They have refused to disclose what was discussed in the
meeting with "reasonable specificity", as is required
by law.


And it would seem, they met in secret to discuss matters that
they had no business discussing at all, much less in secret,
in violation of the law.

Board Member Marty Esquivel, attended the meeting,
and is a lawyer specializing in "open government".

If anybody knows whether or not that meeting was
conducted in violation of the law, it would be him.

I have asked him to address the apparent discrepancy.

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