A well reasoned and well written appeal by WDRB, and an equally well reasoned and well written decision by Assistant Attorney General — and long time merit staffer — James Herrick, recognizing that "KRS 61.810(1)(g) does not permit a public agency to discuss its own business strategy among its own members in closed session. Such discussions are public business."

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=48229

It's almost embarrassing that the Board of Directors of the University of Louisville Medical Center would demonstrate such an abysmal ignorance of the Kentucky open meetings law.

The attorney general admonished the board for invoking an exception narrowly tailored to promote economic development by permitting closed session discussions of a business entity's previously undisclosed interest in siting, retention, expansion, or upgrading in the state — if public discussion would jeopardize the entity's interest — to shield discussion of the medical center's own strategic business plan from public scrutiny.

The latter, as Herrick emphasizes, is the very essence of public business.

Well done, WDRB. Well done, Herrick.