{"id":794,"date":"2013-03-09T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T23:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2013-08-15T04:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:58:05","slug":"school-board-violating-the-open-and-public-meetings-act-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/school-board-violating-the-open-and-public-meetings-act-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Violating the Open And Public Meetings Act (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nAt the March 5th, 2013<\/strong>, School Board Meeting about an 1 hour and 42 minutes into the meeting the board president brought up the minutes for our January 8, 2013 meeting. I had initially asked for a minor change and to have my “Point of Order” letter included as part of the minutes. Instead of doing so in our February 5th meeting the board president pulled them from the agenda and we did not act on them. I had made the request a total of six times via email, letter or in person.<\/p>\nAbove is a picture of B-2 School Board Meetings Administrative Procedures. It states the following:<\/p>\n5. Recordings and Minutes for Board Meetings:<\/p>\na. Written minutes and recording will include:<\/p>\n\u2022 he date, time and place of the meeting;<\/p>\n\u2022 the names of the members present and absent;<\/p>\n\u2022 the substance of all actions taken;<\/p>\n\u2022 the names of all citizens who appeared and a brief summary of their testimony; and<\/p>\n\u2022 any other information that any member requests be entered in the recording and minutes.<\/p>\nThe underlined part is what I quote in the meeting. This language comes right out of the Utah Code 52-4-203.\u00a0\u00a0 Written minutes of open meetings — Public records — Recording of meetings.<\/p>\nYet this stumps the School Board President and other members of the school board and now we are going to expend our neighbor’s tax dollars and have an attorney come in and explain it to us.<\/p>\nWhat am I missing?? I have been on the Board for two months, serving with people who have been on the board for a decade and this is the first time this has come up?<\/p>\nThey did not invite the attorney at the next meeting as was agreed. The following month they did however, concede that they were not following the open meetings act:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2XnBU-eC\">Link to Blog Posting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the March 5th, 2013, School Board Meeting about an 1 hour and 42 minutes into the meeting the board president brought up the minutes for our January 8, 2013 meeting. I had initially asked for a minor change and to have my “Point of Order” letter included as part of the minutes. Instead of doing so in our February 5th meeting the board president pulled them from the agenda and we did not act … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/school-board-violating-the-open-and-public-meetings-act-audio\/\">Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,27,76,66,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelclara.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}