UK trustees should vet budget in public; closed door out of line - Herald-Leader Editorial

We'll stipulate a few things about conducting business in public: It can be messy. It can be confusing. It can be exhausting. For example, Lexington's Urban County Council met for seven hours in one session last week hammering out the details of the city's $313 million budget. The University of Kentucky board of trustees and top administrators understandably wanted to spare themselves these inconveniences while considering the flagship university's $3 billion budget. But, UK is a public institution, receiving public funds, charged with educating Kentucky's citizens. Despite the messy, confusing and exhausting business of examining that huge budget in public, that's where it has to happen. And it's the law. http://www.kentucky.com/2014/06/15/3292488/uk-trustees-should-vet-budget.html?sp=/99/349/