Did Sheffield Violate the Open Meetings Act?

 

1. All multi-member governing bodies are covered by Alabama's Open Meetings Act.

2. A meeting is defined as a gathering of an elected body with over half the members present.

3. Preliminary agendas must be posted in the same location and manner as that of the meeting itself.

If the City of Sheffield has followed the rules, obviously no violation occurred. Yet has the City behaved ethically? Two entirely different things.

Mayor Steve Stanley recently commented to the TimesDaily that the council was under no obligation of inform Meal Barrel director Penny Freeman that it would be discussing that organization's lease. Surely Ms. Freeman had a right to speak on the issue?

Stanley, like Florence mayor Andy Betterton, must know that his days in office are numbered. Does he not care that he came across as a vengeful tyrant?

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