Open Meetings Act

In researching the Open Meetings Act on the New Mexico Attorney General's website, I came across example 40, which reads:

"A local school board, pursuant to statutory authority, meets to appoint a person to fill a vacancy on the board. This paragraph does not authorize closing the meeting to consider that appointment because a board member is not an employee of the school district."

So, it would appear that the executive sessions to appoint both D'dre Brock and Ed Woten to the school board were in violation of the Open Meetings Act.

I have forwarded this information to the school board for their review.