2 of 3 school board chairmen in Blount County see no need to charge to view public records

By |2015-03-02T07:30:33-06:00February 23, 2015|Categories: fees|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

The Daily Times in Maryville asked the three school board chairmen in Blount County what they thought about changing the law to allow local governments to charge citizens to view public records. Two said they saw no need for it in their school districts, while the third appeared to rely on an example that wouldn't even apply. The Blount County school board chairman who favored allowing new fees described a situation in which the school district's fiscal administrator spent several hours writing responses for a citizen about the school district's budgets. “Each item dealt with finances and interpretation of policy, and he wrote two- to three-paragraph responses to educate the reader [...]