Rio Blanco Herald Times: It must be that time of year again. Sunshine Week — the annual reminder of why open government matters — isn’t officially on the calendar until March, but sometimes the reminder needs to be made a wee bit early.

Last Wednesday, a citizen sent me a photo of three of the five Meeker Regional Library District board members talking together outside the library before the scheduled public meeting. Along with the photo came a simple question: “Sunshine Law violation?”

For some background, Colorado’s Open Meetings Law prohibits a quorum of a public board from discussing board business outside of a properly noticed public meeting. In this case, three members constitute a quorum. There’s no audio recording of the conversation, so we can’t say what they were discussing — it could have been board business, or it could have been the Broncos’ latest heartbreak. But here’s the thing: it doesn’t look good.

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