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as a judge.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Willis.

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DELEGATE WILLIS: Delegate Willoner, several

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questions. I don't know quite how far this goes.

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Suppose the head of an institution of higher

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learning would like to have a staff meeting with the heads

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of his departments. Would that be open and would he have

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to give prior notice of it?

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DELEGATE WILLONER: My opinion would be no, and

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I might add in answering that, of course, this is subject

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to judicial construction. There are a lot of open meeting

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statutes on the books, Maryland has several. Of course,

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Maryland has an automatic exclusion, where every meeting

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shall be open where there is a decision taken. But you

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can always have an executive session, but there is no

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enforcement and no notice or anything else, and it is

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pretty meaningless.

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But where the language has some meaning the courts

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have restricted it. I don't think you would have to worry

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about staff meetings unless they were staff meetings where

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you were going to decide something that needed to be