The Albany City Council loves executive sessions where the public is excluded and reporters are allowed in but barred from reporting what they hear.
Albany is one of 88 Oregon cities and counties that will share in the gusher of money that will spring from the national settlement of lawsuits over what is usually called the “opioid crisis.”
The Albany City Council Monday voted quickly and unanimously to approve a settlement of a lawsuit the city filed four years ago over the failure of a system at the city’s new sewage treatment plant.
It’s a mystery why the legislature and many Oregon governing boards still insist that the public can be kept in the dark when governments are considering spending money to buy real estate. The Albany City Council, for instance, has scheduled another executive session closed to the public for Wednesday night. The purpose: “To discuss […]
Oregon’s public meetings law, adopted 40 years ago, allows some meetings of public bodies to be closed to the public. But it has a weird provision requiring that news media representatives must be allowed in, with only two exceptions. The law does not, however, say what it means by news media. Forty years ago the […]
After closed session, here’s contract news
The Albany City Council missed a chance last week to let people learn about the new contract between the city and the union representing most of the employees in the police department.
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