Letters to the Editor: T-board meeting illegal

On 1/12/2012, the Transportation Board (T Board) held a meeting from 5:30-8:30 to receive the final TAC report.  At the beginning of the meeting, the T Board chair announced that the meeting would end at 8:15 to give the board an opportunity to examine a rough design for NM502 sketched by Kyle Zimmerman.
This item, clearly new business, was not on the agenda (attached).  The public input time was shortened, contrary to what was publicized in the paper, to provide time for this presentation.  Because there was a quorum of T Board members attending this  presentation, it became a “de facto” T Board meeting, not announced, and thus in violation of the Open Meetings Act.  As I was speaking to the T Board chair after the
publicized meeting was adjourned, a Public Works employee interrupted
the conversation to urge the chair to move to the back of the room where Kyle Zimmerman was explaining his rough design.
At the 1/19 meeting, the board voted to select the Zimmerman plan as their recommendation for NM502 between Airport Road and DP Road.

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