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Elbert County Residents Say Commissioners Violated Open Meetings Law by Privately Approving Administrator and Attorney Contracts

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  • Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition

    The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition is a nonpartisan alliance of groups, news organizations and individuals dedicated to ensuring the transparency of state and local governments in Colorado by promoting freedom of the press, open courts and open access to government records and meetings.

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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.