Peter Corroon's Cabinet meetings soon will be open to the public, but the mayor has to hold them only once a month. That was the compromise made Tuesday by the County Council, which called on the district attorney's office to draft such an ordinance. The move, pushed by Republican Councilman David Wilde, comes in response to the hiring scandal under former Mayor Nancy Workman. "This is not in any way an attempt to criticize the current mayor," said Wilde, who praised the openness of the Corroon administration. "But in years to come there's certainly going to be new mayors and they may have a different attitude." Wilde initially called for weekly meetings and suggested they be subject to Utah's Open Meetings Act. The compromise calls for "reasonable notification" about monthly meetings to the public and news media for Cabinet sessions, but does not require that they be recorded. County attorneys are still determining if Cabinet meetings could be closed for personnel, contract and litigation issues - as they now can be under the state's sunshine law. Corroon, satisfied with the move, said he doesn't want the executive and legislative bodies to become adversarial. "We'll try it out and hopefully it will work to the benefit of all of us." - Derek P. Jensen