The county pension board's documents
committee met yesterday to talk about the new retirement plan for the
Knox County Sheriff's Office. Story right smack here.
One item of note that wasn't in the
article: I'm pretty sure this was not a sunshined meeting. I'm not
100 percent positive, but I certainly didn't get anything from the
pension board office, nor did I see anything in the legal section.
If true, this is the same thing that
happened back in 2006 when the first plan was put together: The media
and the public for that matter were not informed about the committee
meeting dates. Subsequently, they got no coverage and no one knew
just what the heck kind of plan we were going to get. (Pension board
officials said they put up a notice on a wall in the Deathstar. That
wall, by the way, was down a long, narrow hallway that folks in the
public – not counting county retirees and employees – rarely
visit.
Anyhoo, I found out about the meeting
on Tuesday while talking to Commissioner Ed Shouse. He mentioned it.
I was pretty surprised. (Ed sits on the pension board and I should
add that it's not his job to sunshine document committee meetings,
but he does a good job of letting people know about this kind of
stuff.)
I later get a copy of the letter that
was sent to the five members of the document committee and a handful
of others. You can find that bad boy, by clicking right smack here.
Now, if you're looking at it (you did
click, right?), you'll notice that the memo actually states that
Thursday's meeting is actually a rescheduled meeting from one that
was supposed to happen on Tuesday. Yeah, I don't think the one on
Tuesday was sunshined, either.
Further, you might also see that
Thursday's meeting was set for 2 a.m. Thursday. Good thing that was a
typo.
I think.
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