"Either You Are For Open Government or You’re Not "– MCC – Part 1C

So, what do make of this?

A copy of excerpts of the minutes from the McHenry County College Board have been filed as part of an official document, but they are not on the MCC web site yet?

They are for the baseball stadium approval meeting on April 26, 2007, and concern “committee reports.”

They certainly don’t tell much. I would hope there was more discussion than is indicated in the minutes.

Also found, but not yet available on the college’s internet web site are more extensive minutes for the Committee of the Whole meeting held on April 23rd with no prior public notice on that same web site.

They are more interesting items, including news that PMA, the ex-financial advisor of the Huntley School District and, more recently, advisor to Carpentersville District 300 on things financial, reviewed construction costs of the new complex.

The minutes said they were “the third party reviewer” of somebody else’s estimate of construction costs. That ”resulted in a revision of their statement to come up with approximately the same construction costs.”

Not a lot of details there.

And, guess what?

Requests for Qualification “for bond advisers have gone out.”

But, there’s nothing about this meeting on the MCC web site either.

The reason that would be given, of course, is that the minutes have not been approved yet.

If so, how could they be submitted as part of an official document?

I can find no indication that the recipient is not supposed to think they are the real thing.

But, as Terry Mutchler, Lisa Madigan’s top Open Meetings and Freedom of Information lawyer, said when she spoke in another room at McHenry County College while the MCC Board was meeting on April 26th,


“Either You Are For Open Government or You’re Not.”

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“Either You Are For Open Government or You’re Not “– MCC – Part 1A

“Either You Are For Open Government or You’re Not “– MCC – Part 1B


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