After noting that the Industrial Authority still hasn’t resolved
still hasn’t decided about Sterling Planet’s land purchase offer
even though
they had a meeting last week at which they could have,
with their new executive director and their new chairman,
the VDT editorialized today:
The IA promised a future of more open communication.
And yet Tuesday, the board’s attorney refused to answer any questions
regarding the potential sale of the land to the company, citing a caveat
in the Open Records Act that protects information involved in a current
legal issue. The Times issued an Open Records request Tuesday to obtain
the information requested or copies of the litigation documents, assuming
that since the attorney cited this exemption, there is an active lawsuit
over the land sale.
Good point!
The VDT acknowledged its own mistake and moved to correct it: