By: Patterson Irrigator Editorial Board

The Del Puerto Health Care District board of directors voted unanimously to extend the district's purchase agreement with Keystone for a new health center. There was no public discussion on the matter.

"The acts of attempting to amend zoning laws or choose a different parcel of property to acquire don't come remotely close to falling within the definition set forth in the civil code," Ewert wrote in an e-mail to the Irrigator. "Merely labeling proposed action or discussion of these items as a trade secret is not enough. Both of these items are required by law to be discussed in open session, because no other exemption allows discussion or action on these items in closed session."

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