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“Government can only be accountable if taxpayers can see what they are buying and how much they are paying for it.”

State Treasurer Cary Kennedy commenting on the Colorado Department of Treasury website that tracks how Colorado tax dollars are spent, as quoted on TheDenverChannel.com 03/07/2010.

Lawyers accuse CSU officials of trying to run up legal costs

By Fort Collins Coloradoan,
June 5, 2009

A lawyer for the Coloradoan and two other media organizations suing CSU over alleged open-meeting violations has accused university officials of deliberately trying to run up the legal costs of the suit - costs taxpayers will have to pay if the media organizations win.

The media organizations are suing Colorado State University over what they argue are a series of violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law, which generally requires public business to be conducted in public rather than in secret "executive sessions."

CSU's Board of Governors on May 5 met behind closed doors for a vaguely described meeting in which the board interviewed fellow member Joe Blake for the system chancellor position, then decided to make him the sole finalist for the job before coming out in public to re-take the same vote without discussion.

For the full story, please visit http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090605/NEWS01/906050327/1002/CUSTOMERSE...

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