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DELEGATE WIUONER: No, This would open up

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such meetints if they were not protected "except as other-

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wise provided by law." It is not a difficult matter. It

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is a matter always raised. I am absolutely positive that

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the legislature would so provide.

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As far as that aspect is concerned, they could

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adopt this freedom of information statute, and they would

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certainly protect that situation,

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Does that answer your question?

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DELEGATE BENNETT: Not very satisfactorily.

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To go to another question, what about a meeting

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to consider the taking of a particular piece of property?

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DELEGATE WILLONER: I just discussed that,

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Delegate Bennett, and it would be an open meeting unless

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the legislature protected it, and again in this statute

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there is provision for the legislature to protect such a

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meeting, it would have to be even broader than that because

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as this points out, it would be something that would be

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against the public interest; if it was against the public

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interest to discuss the matter in public, then of course it

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would be a closed meeting.