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_ ATTACIIMENT A - Page 1 of 3 <br />Cou>7el'l /%3����►�� C'ounc.il Minutes dated 4/25/88 <br />Mit. MAYOR, LADIES ANU GEVTLEME14: <br />I AM IIERE 'TONIGHT, AND I LUST SAY SADLY S0, TO REMIND YOU, THE <br />ELECTED OF'F'ICIALS, LiEML'ERS OF `i'liE CITY STAFF, r1NJ TIE CITY ATTORNEY, <br />FOR INADVERTENTLY DENYING THE PUBLIC ITS ABILITY TO KNOW INFORNWT ION <br />WHICH HAS SEEN SEQUESTERED IN THESE CHAMBERS, UNDEh YOUR BROAD IN`I'EiiPRI- <br />TATION OF THE USE OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. <br />I REFER TONIGHT, SPECIFICALLY, TO THE PENDII14G ISSUE OF THE <br />DISCUSSION TO ANNEX TILE CITY OF LONG LAKE INTu THE CITY OF ORONO. <br />I WOULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT IF THIS ISSUE HAD ARISEN IN THE <br />NORMAL ARENA 0PUBLIC DEBATE; BUT TO HAVE EXPENDED PUBLIC FUNDS, <br />INADVERTENTLY A.; IT I,+1IuHT HAVE BEEN, VIOLATES THL MINNESOTA OPEN <br />MEETING LAWS PROVISION OF 1!XCEPTION. THE DISCUSSION OF :HL ISSUE <br />OF ANNEXATION ALONE, RAISES (ZJESTION OF WHY IT MUST BE KEPT SECRET <br />FhOM THE PUBLIC. PERHAPS IT TAKES A PRIVATE: CITI=4 SUCH AS MYSELF <br />TO REMIND YOU OF MINNESOTA STATUTE 471.705, AL60 KNOWN AS ` di- <br />"MINNESOTA OPEN MEE P ING LAiti . " <br />SUBDIVISION 1. OF THIS STATUTE STATES THAT: <br />"Excopt as otherwisu expressly provided by statute, <br />nil meetings, including; oxecutive sessions, sf any state agency, <br />U—oard, commission or department when required or permitted by <br />law to transact public business in a mooting, and the governing <br />body of any schol district howover orgonized, unorganized <br />territory, county, city, town, or other public body, and of <br />any committeeg sub committee, board, de?artment or commission <br />thereof, shall be opon to the public, except meetings of the <br />board of pardons and the commissioner of corrections. The <br />votes of the members of such stA.e agency, board, commission <br />or department or of Such governing body, committee, sub <br />ncv-ittee, board, department or commission or any action taken <br />Ir meoting heroin required t:) be open to the public shall be <br />Jed in a journal kept for that purpose, Mhich journal <br />be open to tho public during all normal Lusiness hours <br />ov such records are kept. The vote of each member shall be <br />rec.ordod on ouch appropriatlon of money, except fc:r paymonts <br />of judgements, claims anI amounts fixed by statute. This sec- <br />t on shall not apply to any stato agency, board, a' commission <br />when exerciaing (ivasijudicial functions invobving diciAlinary <br />proceedings." <br />*MURE.> <br />