During a city finance committee meeting, Fargo Cass Public Health received state funding to combat addictions and federal funds to to stabilize its workforce.
It would be a step backward to abandon the monthly public meetings; tracking the city’s finance should happen in public view. The necessity for any tax increases shouldn't come out of a vacuum.
City Attorney Nancy Morris advised city leaders, citing North Dakota laws, that the meeting should have been both open and publicly noticed for years, instead of it being held behind closed doors.