I am seeking emails, texts, and/or other documents to explain the discrepancy between the Open Meetings Act requirement and the private meeting held by this committee. An earlier article said Dr. Martirano would have the AAC send him information electronically. Then, the article below states the group "privately reconvened." I am seeking information about meetings only, not celebrations or gatherings by group members after they had completed and submitted their work.
Mostly, I'm trying to figure out if the AAC met together as a group for the meeting in question, and if you are able to respond to that question directly, that will be fine too, and then I will submit a separate request if I end up needing documents.
Policy 6010 V-C states: "All AAC meetings are subject to the Maryland Open Meetings Act. ..." http://www.hcpss.org/f/board/policies/6010.pdf
In contrast, a news article cited below states, "Following Martirano’s proposal, the Attendance Area Committee privately reconvened to incorporate the acceleration of the northeastern high school’s construction into their findings."
Article cited:
Michaels, Andrew. "New Attendance Area Committee report 'scales back' redistricting." Howard County Times. September 28, 2017. Accessed October 04, 2017. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/ph-ho-cf-aac-new-findings-1005-story.html.
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Thank you.
Per clarification - for the meeting Dr. Martirano held to review the AAC’s revised proposal based on HS #13, with them present, documents requested include “minutes from the meeting and a copy of the meeting announcement, as well as anything that indicates when and where the meeting was announced.” Responsive to this request, there are no existing meeting announcements nor were minutes taken during the referenced meeting. For reference, documents presented by the AAC members at this meeting are posted under September 27, Alternative AAC Scenario on the AAC website, including their executive summary: http://www.hcpss.org/f/schoolplanning/aac/aac-alt-scenario-executive-summary.pdf and a scenario rationale: http://www.hcpss.org/f/schoolplanning/aac/aac-alt-scenario-rationale.pdf.