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Monday, June 8, 2009

The $1 Million Public Meetings Notice Mistake

Grays Harbor County might lose $1,000,000 in federal stimulus money because it failed to provide the required notice and record a public meeting under federal grant law.

So reports The (Aberdeen) Daily World.

Local governments are always complaining about how costly it is to comply with open meetings laws. It seems a whole lot more costly to violate them.