Estes Valley Voice: The newly elected board members of the Estes Valley Fire Protection District made it clear at their first properly noticed meeting that they would be following the state’s Sunshine Laws related to open meetings and open records.

Ryan Leahy distributed a copy of an unsigned letter written by the former board that disputed a decision by Larimer County District Court Judge Juan G. Villaseñor that the District violated Colorado’s open meeting laws last fall. The court ruled that the Board had violated the law by making a decision in an October executive session meeting to hire Paul Capo as the new chief. By law, decisions cannot be made in executive session meetings.

Sandra Smith requested that at the June meeting, the matter of the letter be put on the agenda so the Directors would have the opportunity to take a vote to rescind the letter as the official position of the District on the court’s finding.

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