Halifax Hospital is a publicly owned facility funded in part with revenue derived from a special taxing district created by the legislature. Halifax's board held several meetings that it closed to the press on grounds they involved strategic decisions exempted from Florida's 1992 Sunshine Amendment by a 1995 statute. The News-Journal sued when it was denied access, arguing that the meetings actually involved negotiations of considerable importance to its readership. The trial court agreed and ordered that the meetings be open, and the Fifth District Court affirmed. Halifax appeals.