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Cole County settles decade-old Sunshine-law case; commissioners spar over chamber meeting attendance
Summary
The Cole County Commission recorded a roughly $209,000 payout to resolve a decade-old lawsuit over open-meeting violations and debated whether attendance at a chamber transportation meeting would run afoul of the Sunshine Law.
The Cole County Commission on Tuesday confirmed the county will pay about $209,000 to resolve Mallon v. Prosecuting Attorney, a lawsuit dating to 2015, and spent more than an hour debating whether attendance by multiple commissioners at a chamber transportation meeting could violate the state Sunshine Law.
Commissioners said the circuit judge’s determination ended a case that had begun in 2015; the judge in the matter was identified in the meeting as Circuit Judge Daniel Green. A commissioner said the county will be out “about $209,000 for violating sunshine” and that either party could still appeal the judge’s decision.
The discussion then turned to a chamber-organized Jefferson City area Transportation Committee meeting scheduled for the next day, which several…
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