Wednesday, May 08, 2013

APS still fighting agenda notice reform

The APS Policy and Instruction Committee will meet tonight.  On the agenda, link, discussion and action on their Open Meetings Act Resolution; their declaration of their effort to comply with the requirements of the Act.  Within the resolution, the following;

Except in an emergency, the Board of Education draft meeting agenda shall be posted Seventy two (72) hours in advance of a Board of Education meeting.

Except in an emergency, action may only be taken on items that have been officially posted on the final agenda thirty –six (36) hours prior to the meeting, in compliance with the Open Meetings Act.
How does one read this, except that they intend to give only 36 hours notice whenever they feel like it, though the expressed intent of the legislation that changed the Open Meetings Act, is that stakeholders are reasonably entitled to 72 hours notice?

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