Beckham at 578.
Many papers are simply work papers which are exempted because they are preliminary drafts and notes.
Yellow pads can be filled with outlines, notes, drafts and doodlings which are unceremoniously thrown in the wastebasket or which may in certain cases be kept in a desk drawer for future reference. Such preliminary drafts and notes and preliminary memoranda are part of the tools which a public employee or officer uses in hammering out official action within the function of his office. They are expressly exempted by the Open Records Law and may be destroyed or kept at will and are not subject to public inspection. OAG 78-626, p. 2. It memorializes the parties agreement relative to the acquisition of the property, and their mutual legal obligations.