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Pall is Com,m.e05- <br />ATTACHMENT A - Page 1 of 3 _ <br />L OG1!'ICI % 1 �'e Council Minutes dated 4/25/88 <br />• Mai. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: <br />I AM HERE TONIGHT, AND I MUST SAY SADLY SO, TO REMIND YOU, THE <br />ELECTED OFFICIALS, MEMBERS OF THE CITY STAFF, AND TINE CITY ATTORNEY, <br />FOR INADVERTENTLY DENYING THE PUBLIC ITS ABILITY TO KNOW INFORMATION <br />WHICH HAS BEEN SEQUESTERED IN THESE CHAMBERS, UNDER YOUR BROAD INTERPRI- <br />TATION OF THE USE OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. <br />I REFER TONIGHT, SPECIFICALLY, TO THE PENDING ISSUE OF THE <br />DISCUSSION TO ANNEX THE CITY OF LONG LAKE INTO THE CITY OF ORONO. <br />I WOULD NOT BE HERE TONIGHT IF THIS ISSUE HAD ARISEN IN THE <br />NORMAL ARENA OF PUBLIC DEBATE; BUT TO HAVE EXPIJNDED PUBLIC FUNDS, <br />INADVERTENTLY AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VIOLATES-THE MINNESOTA OPEN <br />MEETING LAWS PROVISION OF EXCEPTION. THE DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUE <br />OF ANNEXATION ALONE, RAISES cJESTION OF WHY IT MUST BE KEPT SECRET <br />• FROM THE PUBLIC. PERHAPS IT TAKES A PRIVATE CITIZEN SUCH AS MHSELF <br />TO REMIND YOU OF MINNESOTA STATUTE 4.71.7059 ALSO KNOWN AS THh <br />"MINNESOTA OPEN MEETING LAW." <br />SUBDIVISION 1. OF THIS STATUTE STATES THAT: <br />"Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute, <br />all meetings, including executive sessions, 6f any state agency, <br />board, commission oP department when required or permitted by <br />law to transact public business in a meeting, and the governing <br />body of any school district however organized, unorganized <br />territory, county, city, town, or other public body, and of <br />any committeep sub committee, board, department or commission <br />thereof, shall be open to the public, except meetings of the <br />board of pardons and the commissioner of corrections. The <br />votes of the members of such state agency, board, commission <br />or department or of such governing body, committee, sub <br />committee, board, department or commission or any action taken <br />in a meeting herein required to be open to the public shall be <br />recorded in a journal kept for that purpose, vh ich journal <br />shall be open to the public during all normal business hours <br />where such records are kept. The vote of each member shall be <br />recorded on each appropriation of money, except for payments <br />• of judgements,.claims and amounts fixed by statute. This sec- <br />tion shall not apply to any state agency, board, or commission <br />when exercising quasi judicial functions involving d iciplinary <br />proceedings." <br />*MORE <br />