Elbert County commissioners violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law by approving new contracts for the county administrator and county attorney in private, a group of residents alleged in a letter sent Wednesday.
Drafted by freedom-of-information attorney Steve Zansberg, the letter asks Commissioners Chris Richardson, Dallas Schroeder and Grant Thayer to rescind the two contracts and acknowledge they are “legally invalid” because they “were the product of decisions made outside of any properly convened and open public meeting.”
“Doing so would obviate the need to bring this matter to a court of law and have a judge declare the BOCC’s decisions made outside of a public meeting unlawful,” it adds.