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2007 Arizona Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2007)

handle is hein.sag/sagaz0031 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF ARIZONA OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION No. 107-001 (R06-037) by Re: Application of Open Meeting Laws to TERRY GODDARD Board of Trustees created under ATTORNEY GENERAL A.R.S. § 11-952.01. January 29, 2007 To: Kathryn A. Munro, Esq. Mangum, Wall, Stoops & Warden, P.L.L.C. Ouestion Presented Does the Open Meeting Law (Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) §§ 38-431 to -431.09) apply to the Board of Trustees (the Board) appointed by the multimember governing bodies of various political subdivisions to administer the Northern Arizona Public Employees Benefit Trust (NAPEBT) formed under A.R.S. § 11-952.01(C)? Summary Answer Yes. The Board of Trustees appointed by the political subdivisions under A.R.S. § 11- 952.01 constitutes a public body under A.R.S. § 38-431(6). In administering an employee benefits program on behalf of the political subdivisions that created it, the Board constitutes an instrumentality of those political subdivisions. Moreover, one or more of the participating political subdivisions appoints each trustee on the Board. Therefore, the Board falls within the