The Star tribune writes about how the Minneapolis City Council and others city meetings are on the Internet or planning to go in a growing interest of the community to keep informed. That is good. Things are going quite the opposite however with the older Minneapolis city police pension, the Minneapolis Police Relief Association. The MPRA has had poor attendance of members at most Board meetings but the MPRA had posted minutes at their website, www. mpra.net for quite some time. The minutes began posting on June 8th 1999 and ran continuously until January 13, 2004 when they were removed by Board vote. My friends who belong to the MFRA, the Minneapolis Fire Relief Association, report a similar reluctance to share information regarding their minutes. They will not provide copies of minutes of past meetings to be taken from the room or even copied at their office. Both pensions run close to each other as legislation dealing with one often reflects in the other. Members of both pensions are not keeping abreast of situations in their pensions due to what appears to be a suppression of information to members and the public. There appears to be some common denominator here and whatever that is it is not good! William Lundquist, Bloomington REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list.
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