Market Farming

[Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Carol Childress wrote:

Yes the boards should have open meetings (sunshine laws)  unless it is about employees then they close the meeting.  

It's not at all clear to me what type of legal organization, if any, the market in question has. Some markets are privately owned, and if so I don't think they'd come under open meetings laws. And don't open meetings laws vary by state? New York law, I believe, covers only governmental agencies.

The bylaws, if there are any, may well state that meetings must be open to the membership. But I can't tell whether the market in question even has legally established bylaws. I've run into markets that don't.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

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