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I understand that at FACT-TV's Feb. 10 forum for candidates for the Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) Board of Trustees, someone mentioned that I had broken Vermont's open meeting law six times.
This is not a good thing. However, if you reflect on it, it's also not a very high number of violations.
Just this week, on Sunday, one of the two trustees appointed to our board this summer - the one who is running for a three-year library position - violated open-meeting law by sending out a newsy email to all the trustees. He's been told time and again that this is breaking open meeting law but continues to do it.
About the same time, the other trustee appointed to our board this summer - the one who is not running for a library position - sent out yet another of her long multi-page letters to all the trustees. She does so on a regular basis. My favorite e-mail from her came about a month ago when she stated that she knew she was breaking open-meeting law in sending out that particular email but that she had to - it was important.
