Just so it doesn't go completely unnoticed, the leadership of the APS is in apparent violation the law, again.

APS is holding a policy committee meeting this afternoon.

The Open Meetings Act is applicable law.

"Past practice" is "the way things have always been done".
It becomes as binding as law. If something is being done
for a long enough time, one must keep doing it, even though
the law makes no specific mention of it.

The meeting agenda includes approving the minutes of the previous meeting. According to the OMA, the minutes that are going to be approved, should have to be posted in public for 24 hours in advance of their approval. APS has a past practice of publishing those minutes on their website, as part of the current meeting agenda.

The minutes that are going to be approved tonight, are not yet online. Their approval will violate the law. If you care to push the issue, you will be up against APS/Modrall, their considerable influence with local judges, and their virtually unlimited budget for litigation.

They also intend to approve tonight, the minutes of the September 22nd meeting. According to the law, those minutes were required to have been approved at the October 13th meeting. They were not; again, in apparent violation of the law.

How grievous are these violations of the law in the overall
scheme of things? The answer is, not very.

But you have to wonder, if they have so little regard for the law
they will not obey it when it would be easy to do so,
why would you expect them to have any regard for the law
when that regard comes at some substantial price?

Anyone who will steal a nickle, will steal a dime.

Anyone who will tell little lies, will tell big ones too.

Anyone who will ignore the law anytime they want to,
will ignore the law anytime they need to.