Apr 29, 2021
More than a year after the pandemic changed how everything in our lives operates including government it continues to concern us that some local governments fail to adequately host meetings accessible to the public.
Two recent examples come to mind.
First was a meeting of St. Clairsville City Council from earlier this month. The council there has been hosting meetings via conference call, with no public participation other than to listen in. Not only was the public shut out from having a voice in those meetings, but council members voted, on at least one occasions we’re aware of, secretly by email on a personnel issue. That’s unacceptable and violates open meetings laws.
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WEST LIBERTY West Liberty University’s Board of Governors on Wednesday announced its support of its President W. Franklin Evans, who joined two other local college presidents last month in a public stance against the city of Wheeling’s effort to bring another college to town.
The statement released Wednesday aligns WLU’s board with the boards from Wheeling University and West Virginia Northern Community College, which also issued public statements in support of their presidents following an explosive council meeting on March 16.
Wheeling city leaders, in their ongoing work to fill vacant buildings at the former Ohio Valley Medical Center which the city acquired last year entered into a memorandum of understanding Jan. 5 with Bluefield State College to establish a branch campus in Wheeling. As part of the non-binding agreement, Bluefield State hoped to open a new Engineering and Manufacturing Center in the Education and Administration Buildin
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