From NinerOnline (3/15/12): College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Senator Ray Atkinson recently saw his legislation called The Accountability and Transparency Act tabled after months of work on what he thinks is the biggest issue in the Student Government Association (SGA).
Currently nine of the 17 UNC System universities provide the minutes to their Executive Branch meetings online and our university is not one of them. UNC Charlotte is the fourth largest university in the system, and the three larger universities UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University and East Carolina University all provide minutes online.
All universities are required to provide minutes upon request for all Executive Branch meetings per state law. Including meeting minutes online is not a requirement.
UNC Charlotte by-laws for the Executive Branch §2-3.6 state, “The Chief of Staff shall record the Minutes of every open meeting. In his or her absence, the Secretary for Internal Affairs shall record the Minutes. The Chief of Staff shall make these Minutes publicly available to any person who requests them.”