From The Denver Post:  On the last Tuesday of October, the doors to a conference room at the Steamboat Springs School District opened wide, coffee was set out on a table and the curtain was pulled back on a secret process.

Collective bargaining between the administration and union-covered teachers and employees was open to the public for the first time, the result of a vote earlier in the month by the school board.

Within a couple of hours, the handful of people in attendance had left, including a local reporter. The meeting lasted six more hours.

“The thing about bargaining is it’s tedious,” said Steamboat Springs Superintendent Brad Meeks. “It’s not a lot of drama. It’s just a lot of discussion about salary and benefit proposals.”

Similar open meetings will be required in all 179 Colorado school districts starting in January after 70 percent of voters approved Proposition 104, the only of five statewide ballot measures to pass last week.

Although the implications are unclear, the few Colorado school districts that already negotiate in public provide a glimpse of what might be in store. That so far has ranged from better partnerships to fractured relationships — and longer negotiations.

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