Apparently, the attorney general's office said the task force could legally deliberate in private. Congratulations to task-force member Lew Ferguson, a retired journalist, who felt the public's business deserves to be heard by the public. It appears the state law requiring open meetings of governmental bodies does not apply to task forces that are advisory boards with unpaid volunteers. I hope the task force reconsiders and holds its meetings in public. The school-finance formula is too important to be discussed behind closed doors.
All citizens have a right to hear the deliberations of the school-finance formula task force.
One of the big issues was ridding the schools of the weather-dangerous portable classrooms. Now I read that the board is going to use its capital outlay funds to go ahead and do some of the projects that were cut. I do hope readers across the state will see what is going on in Doo-Dah. It seems that money falls from the rafters when something is needed by the big boys. His point was that George W. Bush was a governor and did not have that Washington experience, and that we should look for a candidate with the Washington background.