On Monday, his Republican colleagues in the House effectively removed him as speaker, saying he needed to focus on his legal matters.

The University Center Club is run by a private company, ClubCorp, under a lease from the Seminole Boosters. It occupies 3 ½ floors at Doak Campbell Stadium and boasts a number of private rooms.

The Sansom event was in the University Room, described as ''the smallest of the private dining rooms on the 5th floor and perfect for small meetings, gatherings and private events.'' It can hold no more than 30 people.

ClubCorp would not let a reporter see the room Wednesday, and it would not release records about the March 24 event.

The meeting itself was first reported by the Herald/Times in December after e-mails obtained in a public records request showed Sansom and Richburg discussing the need to meet.

''Think about a meeting in Tall. with you, the trustees of [the college], and me to talk about the proposed college change and the system questions,'' Richburg wrote Sansom on Feb. 12.

PUBLIC NOTICE

As a public school, a meeting of the trustees must be open to the public, which requires advertising the time and place. The college did provide public notice, with an ad that was published one week before the meeting, in a newspaper in Okaloosa County, 150 miles from the meeting site.

That was Richburg's idea: ''It's probably the only way we can do it in privacy but with a public notice here,'' he wrote in his e-mail to Sansom.

Sansom quickly replied, ``That would be great!! We can get a private room on the 6th floor at FSU. We can set the whole meeting up with Dort. Just give us the word.''

Reporter Alex Leary can be reached at

aleary@sptimes.com

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