Many members of TVARS have asked the TVARS board to open its meetings. I agree. I proposed this at the last quarterly board meeting, but it was not approved. See my proposal here . The board’s governance policy does not currently provide for open meetings. See the complete governance policy here . The next quarterly board meeting will be this Friday, March 15, and it will be closed. The board’s governance policy contains a section entitled “Transparency” (Section #5) which begins: “The Rules and Regulations do not require public access to meetings; however, the Board embraces the governance principles of transparency and accountability.” I believe one might reasonably ask: If the board embraces transparency and accountability, why doesn’t the board provide for public access to its meetings in its governance policy? The Rules and Regulations do not require a lot of things that have been implemented in various board policies. The transparency section of the board's gov...