Board has operated out of the Talladega City Hall for most of its existence, and its members are selected by the Talladega City Council. It is the obligation of this Court when interpreting a statute “to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the legislature as expressed in the statute,” here the Open Records Act. Employees’ Retirement Sys. of Alabama v. Head, 369 So.2d 1227, 1228 (Ala.1979). As the State of Alabama states in its amicus curiae brief: “There has been considerable confusion over the existence and legal status of public corporation utilities, primarily because the reported cases are inconsistent in their analysis. It is possible to find a public corporation utility case to support almost any proposition.... ” Compare Langham v. State, 662 So.2d 1201 (Ala.Crim.App.1994) (<HOLDING>), with Water Works & Sewer Bd. of Selma v.
holding that utility boards are subject to state ethics laws holding on state constitutional grounds that school boards lack authority to arbitrate holding special utility district to be state instrumentality subject to claims made under tchra holding that content of bulletin boards was government speech in that boards were used to express school policy that access was limited to faculty and staff that postings were subject to the oversight of the school principals that the school district had made no affirmative effort to disclaim responsibility for the boards content and that the boards were the property and responsibility of the school and the district holding that in interpreting a contract we look to the conflict of laws rules of  the forum state  to determine which states laws will be controlling