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Public commenter says AG opened investigation into Nov. 18 meeting; questions adequacy of three-day review
Summary
Tony Simmons told the commission the Nevada Attorney General has opened an investigation into alleged open-meetings violations tied to the Nov. 18 session and said a three-day window may be insufficient to review a 185-page order, suggesting the Nov. 19 decision could be challenged as capricious.
During both the opening and closing public-comment periods Tony Simmons addressed the commission from Las Vegas.
Simmons said, for the record, that the Nevada Attorney General has opened an investigation into alleged violations of the open meeting law relating to the commission's Nov. 18 meeting. He also raised a procedural concern about the short time to review lengthy orders: "It raised the question whether 3 days is really adequate to evaluate, look for all the typos and correct citations in a 185 page order," Simmons said, and suggested that the Nov. 19 decision could be argued to be capricious if commissioners lacked sufficient time to review the document. Commissioner Cordova acknowledged Simmons' comments on the record.
The commission did not take additional public action in response during the meeting; commissioners recorded the comments and proceeded with agenda votes.
