Page 6 University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1981
Commissioners warned about informal meetings
By JOE REBEIN and MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporters
A State deputy attorney general warned Lawrence City Commissioners to "keep the door open" when they become at last night's Gaucho meeting.
Brad. Smoot, deputy Attorney General, said commissioners were in a difficult situation because they were a small body and had to be very careful not to break the state's open meeting law.
"I think this could have a real chilling effect on city commissioners talking to each other about the public's business," he said.
Clark was especially concerned about whether phone calls between commissioners constituted a meeting under the law.
"You have to be bary of discussion among yourselves because you could be excluding information other commissioners would like to be privy to."
Smoot, however, said careful evaluation of the law could give commissioners guidelines to follow when dealing with issues outside of the commission meetings.
"Telephone conversations are the most difficult situations to define as meeting under the law," Smoot said. "If you have time to call one commissioner about an issue, then you probably have time to inform other commissioners, which would reduce the risk of breaking the law.
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Smoot pointed out some weak points of the law.
"I don't think the open meetings law was designed to prevent contact with citizen and commissioners. Rather the intent of the statute, when citizens come before you with special interests, is that these public interests are presented in the proper forum for all to see."
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"The law only requires a limited kind of notice," Smoot said. "If there are no requests about the meeting, then the notice is not obligated to notify the public."
Smoot cautioned commissioners that only a majority of a quorum which in the commission's case is two members, need be present to constitute a meeting.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commission also granted a request by KU fraternities to block off Steward St. for week Week 1861 Celebration block party.
LAST MONTH Smoot issued a "stern warning" to commissioners about gathering informally before commission meetings.
Bill Southern, chairman of Greek Week, told commissioners that adequate parking would be provided, the report said, and speakers away from residential areas.
Smoot's warning came after Commissioner Don Binnis filed a complaint charging Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners Nancy Chontz and Tom Gleason with violating the open meeting law by occasionally meeting in the mayor's office on Tuesday afternoons before commission meetings.
Francisco said the evaluation should be done soon since it had been more than a year since Watson's last evaluation.
"The party is free so there won't be people trying to crash the gates," Southern said.
"Having a five-member city commission really makes this a tough case," Commissioner Barkely Clark said. Clark had invited Smoot to discuss the open meeting law at the commission meeting to define when commissioners could safely converse outside commission meetings.
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He said a violation of the law would occur if notice of a meeting had not been given to those who requested it, if the meeting had been prearranged and took place behind closed doors, or was about official upcoming city decisions.
Commissioners expressed concern about a possible reocurrence of problem that follows their closing of SSRF for the first put on but in FI Kaplan'salpha fraternity.
According to Commissioner Shontz, there had been complaints about people parking on dead-end streets, walking in the street, climbing fences trying to get to the party.
Southern reassured commissioners that "adequate precautions had been taken which would alleviate the problems of blocking off the street."
The commission also decided to review the city manager evaluation guidelines within the next few weeks in an effort to begin evaluating Watson.
The commission also deferred a decision until Sept. 29 on the permanent use of the old Bert Nash home. The home is currently used by the O'Connell Youth Program which has leased the year. Women's Transitional Care Services has expressed a desire to use the home for their facility.
FRANCISCO SAID the final alternative mentioned, adding an ex officio member to the board, would cause problems because that member would have to represent several different tenant groups.
The commission also authorized a resolution to encourage owners of mobile home parks to provide adequate shelter for residents, and resolved that stated the city's intent
EARLIR IN THE day, commissioners met in a study session to discuss the possibility of expanding the city housing authority and to set guidelines for an evaluation of City Manager Buford Watson.
to acquire $100,000 of firefighting equipment and $200,000 of sanitation equipment.
Under the state law, the housing authority board can have only five members, but Watson said because the laws on authorities were applied differently, the city may be able to expand the board.
Watson said the housing authority law allowed cities of more than 250,000 people to alter the terms of their board members.
Another alternative mentioned was adding a consumer advisory board to the housing authority, but several commission members said they were unsure whether that would solve the problem.
The commission decided to get a second opinion on whether it could expand the use of the device.
"The problem as I see it is communications." Francisco said. "And
I'm not sure putting on another layer would help communications."
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