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Auditors flag town-hall as "borderline" meeting and recommend stronger OPMA practices
Summary
State auditors reviewed Mason County minutes and said a town-hall event where one commissioner spoke and another attended passively was borderline under the Open Public Meetings Act; they recommended following OPMA notice and documentation practices when a quorum attends to avoid potential violations.
State auditors told Mason County officials a recent town-hall-style event in which one commissioner participated actively while another attended passively appeared "borderline" under the state's Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA).
"While the event didn't violate OPMA requirements ... as far as what constitutes a meeting, per state law, it was essentially kind of a borderline event,"…
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