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LUKE OPENED the question by informing the other Supervisors that he thought it would be useful for them to get together for the “executive work session,” sitting as “a sort of committee of the whole,” to talk about “the budget, schools, landfills and anything else somebody might think of.”
To an immediate question raised by newsmen, Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis, without consulting the law books, said he thought the meeting described by Luke would be allowable under the Freedom of Information law. (Later, in his office, he read the law, as amended at the 1974 session of the General Assembly, and he didn’t speak quite so positively. He just laughed.)
Luke elaborated on his thoughts about the need for the closed-door session. “The school situation took a turn for the worse, as far as I am concerned,” said Luke, referring to Warren County’s decision to have its own system superintendent, thereby forcing Rappahannock to do the same. “The budget doesn’t look good.”
To newsmen who objected to the proposed meeting, he invited them to attend “if it is not reported.” He added: “Because most of us are farmers, working cattle men, we
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