Saturday, October 31, 2009

Legal Closed Session?

There are reasons for government officials to sometimes hold parts of meetings in "closed session". One example is that everyone has a right to medical and employment privacy. To protect those rights, government bodies can go in to closed session. Another is when negotiating. A third example is when the body is conferring with a lawyer. There are others but the basic idea is that there is a good reason to go in to "closed session" to keep certain information secret. Wisconsin law covers when it's allowed.

How does a company's, "presentation to show that it can save the county money if it handles duties that are currently managed by the county planning department" fit in to that?

In a previous article about secret meetings on this same planning privatization topic, '[Chair] Zima said a "well-known person in the community" initially made contact with Patrick Engineering.' I'm curious, who?

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