BOARD00725

• Board Meeting Date: 1/18/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Mr. Stapleton: Since we are not in complete agreement on it, I would
like to give as much time for discussion as we need. Before we get to
some members of the audience, l~. Maynes is going to be v~. Kroeger's
proxy this afternoon. Hr. Maynes from Durango, is that right? A
skier from around there.

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~~. Mavnes: Right.

1~. Stapleton: I am going to ask that the members of the board if
they have any comments or suggestions about the proposed amendment
that Mr. Sparks has proposed, or if you have any comments on the
approach that ~~. Saunders had, that will be fine. But unfortunately
none of us but Mr. Sparks has seen that in writing. So I will ask
for any comments any members of the board may have.

I guess at lunch you may have taken a definite position you hadn't
told me about, but let's get to some members of the audience. I have
a feeling some of the lawyers who were at the meeting are still at
lunch. Well, I am not going to pass it that easily, I am going to
turn to another item on the agenda for a minute, because I am going
to see if we can't get some discussion out of them because it is
important. ~1hile we are waiting we will asle if you don't mind, to
turn to agenda item number 5. We ask our distinguished attorney to
tell us about the Sunshine Law, particularly as it affects this board
in terms of who can speak and whether they are allowed to if they
are not registered lobbyists. We will call 0n ~rr. Mose8 to analyze
that for us.

~~. Moses: The board members have in their packets my opinion and I
am not going to read it as it is too long and the constitutional
opinion, a copy of the bill and a copy of the Attorney General's
op~n~on. I think you will be pleasad to know that the way this board
has conducted its business for the last twenty years has been entirely
in accord with the philosophy and I think the strict reading of the
bill. I see no reason for the board to change any of its policies or
procedures. You have sent out notices of the meetings to a wide list
of people and have always made the notice and the agenda items avail- I
able to anyone who has submitted his name to the board and wanted to
be put on the mailing list. That is one of the requirements, that
there be a..le notice of the meetinga_ the "genda, indicating what i, -
going to be discussed, that the meetings be opcn to the public, to
not hold executive sessions and that has bc~n the policy of the board.
There are certain things which do not have to be discussed in public,
such as pending lawsuits. As one court opinion said, it is obvious

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