Boulder Daily Camera: Back in April, the Boulder City Council voted 5-4 in a non-binding straw poll to allow for city staff to explore Federal Aviation Administration grants for work on the Boulder Municipal Airport, meaning the airport possibly stays open in perpetuity. That direction from the council may have violated city law, Colorado open meetings laws and may have been made without the council having the full story on the airport, according to documents posted by the group Airport Neighborhood Campaign, or ANC.

One document is a six-page legal memo from the Denver law firm Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, and the other is a 46-page analysis of data presented to the council. The memo is addressed to Laura Kaplan, a member of the ANC and the Planning Board who courted the legal analysis. Both documents are publicly available on the ANC website. ANC is a group that has advocated for the city to stop taking federal funding so that it can ensure local control.

The legal memo states that the direction during the April 23 study session was effectively a policy decision, no matter if it was characterized as keeping the status quo. It also concludes that there was insufficient notice of the meeting if a court were to find the April 23 study session was sufficiently open to the public. The other document, called a Gaps and Errors Report, lays out what the group calls “significant” errors and oversights in the presentation that informed the council’s straw poll.

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