"......meeting in secret to try to strike a compromise that will help reduce the state’s $4 billion budget deficit....."  
So, secret meetings is how this bunch continues to conduct the public`s fiscal spending business??   
I say enough is enough.
  I wonder if any lobbyists are or have been in communication with leadership "during or in between" these secret meetings?    I would think an inquiring reporter might want to know the answer to that.
   Do the Alaskan people have lobbyists there taking part?..  I darn sure hope so!   We elected some folks and paying them a good salary because that`s what they said they were going to do; protect Alaska`s best interests before industry`s secretive and unvetted claims of harm.  
 We`re waiting for the product gentlemen, and the DEBATE on the floor over amendments!