From the Eagle Valley Enterprise:  An examination of documentation provided in response to questions regarding the propriety of a trip to Florida taken by Eagle Mayor Yuri Kostick and Eagle Town Board member Doug Seabury uncovered violations of the Colorado Open Meetings once the pair returned.

Copies of email communications regarding the trip, provided in response to a Colorado Open Records Act request, detailed plans for private meetings including Kostick and Seabury and other board members. On Nov. 2 Kostick contacted town board member Andy Jessen requesting a meeting. The email stipulated that the meeting would include Kostick, Jessen and Doug Seabury and its purpose is to “fill you in on some economic development news.”

Additionally on Nov. 3 a similar email from Kostick requested a meeting between himself, Seabury and and town board member Kevin Brubeck stating “We have an economic development update and also want to chat quickly about the budget.”

Those meetings happened and they violated Colorado’s Sunshine Law, which states “All meetings of a quorum or three or more members of a body, which ever is fewer, at which any public business is discussed or at which any formal action may be taken must be open to the public unless an exception applies. § 24-6-402(2)(b).”

When contacted regarding the issue, Kostick said he thought the Sunshine Law allowed three people to meet outside of regularly noticed public hearings.

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