June Sparks says better communication equals less conflict and harmonious neighborhoods.
So Sparks, who lived through a bitter dispute over landscaping in her own Foothills subdivision, is pushing for the state to require open meetings between homeowners associations and residents.
From the Idaho Statesman
The Idaho State Board of Education held a four-hour closed meeting last week to discuss eliminating a statewide ninth-grade test due to a cash crisis, despite a state law requiring most of its sessions be open to the public.
The Spokesman-Review newspaper, which first reported details of the executive session, on Wednesday filed a complaint with Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.
From the Associated Press
Idaho ninth-graders won’t take the state’s standardized tests this spring because of a budget shortfall, the state Board of Education announced this week.
However, the board hasn’t taken a vote to make that change, and discussed the matter during a closed session at its Pocatello board meeting last Thursday in apparent violation of the Idaho Open Meeting Law, which allows closed meetings only for specific purposes.
From the Spokesman-Review