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13D. Meetings Of Public Bodies (3) as otherwise expressly provided by statute. Subd. 3. Subject of and grounds for closed meeting. Before closing a meeting, a public body shall state on the record the specific grounds permitting the meeting to be closed and describe the subject to be discussed. Subd. 4. Votes to be kept in jonrnal. (a) The votes of the members of the state agency, board, commission, or department; or of the governing body, committee, subcommittee, board, department, or commission on an action taken in a meeting required by this section to be open to the public must be recorded in a journal kept for that purpose. (b) The vote of each member must be recorded on each appropriation of money, except for payments of judgments, claims, and amounts fixed by statute. Subd. 5. Public access to journal. The journal must be open to the public during all normal business hours where records of the public body are kept. Subd. 6. Public copy of members' materials. (a) In any meeting which under subdivisions 1,2,4, and 5, and section 130.02 must be open to the public, at least one copy of any printed materials relating to the agenda items of the meeting prepared or distributed by or at the direction of the governing body or its employees and: (I) distributed at the meeting to all members of the governing body; (2) distributed before the meeting to all members; or (3) available in the meeting room to all members; shall be available in the meeting room for inspection by the public while the governing body considers their subject matter. (b) This subdivision does not apply to materials classified by law as other than public as defined in chapter 13, or to materials relating to the agenda items of a closed meeting held in accordance with the procedures in section liO.03 or other law permitting the closing of meetings. History: 1957 c 773 s 1; 1967 c 462 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 654 s 15; 1973 c 680 s 1,3; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1981 c 174 s 1; 1983 c 137 s 1; 1983 c 274 s 18; 1984 c 462 s 27; 1987 c 313 s 1; 1990 c 550 s 2,3; 1991 c 292 art 8 s 12; 1991 c 319 s 22; 1994 c 618 art 1 s 39; 1997 c 154 s 2; ISp200I c 10 art 4 s 1 Page 2 of7 13D.02 MEETINGS CONDUCTED BY INTERACTIVE TV; CONDITIONS. Subdivision 1. Conditions. A meeting governed by section 130.01, subdivisions 1,2,4, and 5 , and this section may be conducted by interactive television so long as: (I) all members of the body participating in the meeting, wherever their physical location, can hear and see one another and can hear and see all discussion and testimony presented at any location at which at least one member is present; (2) members ofthe public present at the regular meeting location ofthe body can hear and see all discussion and testimony and all votes of members of the body; (3) at least one member of the body is physically present at the regular meeting location; and (4) each location at which a member of the body is present is open and accessible to the public. Subd. 2. Members are present for quorum, participation. Each member of a body participating in a meeting by electronic means is considered present at the meeting for purposes of determining a quorum and participating in all proceedings. Subd. 3. Monitoring from remote site; costs. If interactive television is used to conduct a meeting, to the extent practical, a public body shall allow a person to monitor the meeting electronically from a remote location. The body may require the person making such a connection to pay for documented marginal costs that the public body incurs as a result of the additional connecti on. Subd. 4. Notice of regular and all member sites. If interactive television is used to conduct http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.uslbinlgetpub.php?pubtype=ST A T _ CHAP&year=2006&section= 13 D 04/12/2007