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EDITORIAL: Keep process public: Decisions via e-mails, poor notices cloud county control board practices.(Editorial)

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| March 01, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Buffalo News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Mar. 1--The Erie County control board may not have violated the Open Meetings Law at a recently held meeting in the Central Library, but it did strain the public trust. County residents got little notice that this meeting was being held -- and the process uncovered an unacceptable practice, the use of e-mails to deliberate and conduct board business.

Peter Reese of Buffalo, a lawyer who had been a member of the county's Charter Revision Commission, insisted the gathering in the library last Thursday was, in fact, a formal meeting of the board's Finance Committee. Present were Joseph Goodell, the board's chairman, plus members Kenneth Kruly and John Johnson.…

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