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. 471.705. Meetings of governing bodies; open to public; exceptions • Subdivision 1. Presumption of openness. Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute, all meetings, including executive sessions, of any state agency, board, commission or department when required or permitted by law to transact public business in a meeting, and the governing body of any school district however organized, unorganized territory, county, city, town, or other public body, and of any committee, subcommittee, board, department or commission thereof, shall be open tothe public, except meetings of the commissioner of corrections. _ The votesof the members of such state agency, board, commission, or department or of such.governing body, committee, subcommittee, board, department, or commission on any action taken in a meeting herein required to be.open to the public shall be recorded in a journal kept for that purpose,and the journal shall be open to the public during all normal business hours where such records are kept. The vote of each member shall be recorded on each appropriation of money, except for payments of judgments, claims and amounts fixed by statute. This section shall not apply to any state agency, board, or commission when exercising quasi-judicial functions involving disciplinary proceedings. Subd. la. Labor negotiations. Subdivision 1 does not apply to a meeting held pursuant to the procedure in this subdivision. The governing body of a public employer may by a majority vote in a public meeting decide to hold a closed meeting to consider strategy for labor negotiations, including negotiation strategies or developments or discussion and review of labor negotiation proposals, conducted pursuant to sections 179A.01 to 179A.25. The time of commencement.and place of the closed meeting shall be announced at the public meeting. A written roll of members and all other persons present at the closed meeting shall be made • available to the public after.the closed meeting. 'The proceedings of a closed meeting to discuss'negotiation strategies shall be tape-recorded at the expense of the governing body. The recording shall be preserved for two years after the contract is signed and shall be made • available to the.public after all labor contracts are'signed by,the governing body for the current budget period. . • . . If an action is brought claiming that public business other than discussions of.labor '• negotiation strategies or_developments or discussion and review of labor negotiation proposals was transacted at a closed meeting held pursuant to this subdivision during the time when the 29