About seven months after Jeff Groob was appointed to the board that oversees Gateway Community and Technical College, he became convinced that the college president and CEO would never provide him with information he needed to make well-informed decisions on the board.
It was May 2010 when Groob turned to the state’s Open Records Act, which requires public agencies and institutions like the college to provide information members of the public have requested. Groob’s letter to the college asked six specific questions and included a request for a detailed copy of the Gateway budget, a document that state statute requires the Gateway board, including Groob, to review.
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