Evelyn Pyburn has a good piece on her efforts to get the Big Sky Economic Development Corp. to hold its meetings in public. The EDC is a branch of the Big Sky Economic Development Authority, which is taxpayer supported.
Attorney Tom Towe gave the EDC an opinion holding that it was a private organization required to meet in public only when matters involving public funds are discussed. Helena attorney Mike Malloy gave this succinct appraisal of Towe's position: "Hogwash."
Read your property tax statement.
ReplyDeleteWe should all chip in a buy every City Council memeber a copy of the "Freedom of Information Deskbook"
ReplyDeletefor all the good it would do...