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Supervisors form committee to review appointment applications after court guidance
Summary
Following a court of appeals opinion, the Osceola County Board of Supervisors voted to use an appointed committee (engineer, auditor, sheriff, local attorney and two supervisors) to review candidate applications rather than doing all interviews in closed session.
The Osceola County Board of Supervisors voted to establish an appointed application-review committee to vet candidates for a county appointment after discussing recent court guidance on closed-session interviews.
Board members referenced the Iowa Court of Appeals ruling in Tighe v. Loffler as a reason to avoid handling the entire review and interview process exclusively in closed session. County staff and supervisors discussed two options: continuing supervisor-only review with closed…
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