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Mayor reads sunshine-law text as resident questions closed-session real-estate dealings on Main Circle
Summary
At the Feb. 3 Chesterfield City Council meeting, the mayor read portions of state open-meetings statutes while a resident raised concerns about an apparent past city negotiation to buy an office on Main Circle and questioned legal costs and transparency.
The mayor read aloud state open-meetings language and an executive-session exception for real-estate transactions at the Feb. 3 Chesterfield City Council meeting, and a resident said she has tracked what she described as a negotiated but stalled attempt by the city to buy an office building on Main Circle.
"It is the public policy of this state that meetings, records, votes, actions, and deliberations of public governmental bodies be open to the public unless otherwise provided by law," the mayor read from the…
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