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“After 20-plus speakers expressed their disgust regarding a proposed rule change to public presentation guidelines, the Warren County Board of Supervisors at its regular Tuesday meeting delayed a vote and opted to take the matter to a work session.”
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After 20-plus speakers expressed their disgust regarding a proposed rule change to public presentation guidelines, the Warren County Board of Supervisors at its regular Tuesday meeting delayed a vote and opted to take the matter to a work session. The public presentation, or public comment, period occurs at the beginning of the board’s meeting and allows citizens to relay thoughts or concerns to the supervisors. The changes were initially proposed three weeks after resident Mark Egger spoke for about 30 minutes during the supervisors’ November meeting. During that public comment period, he made a series of allegations regarding Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority former executive director Jennifer McDonald. When the board attempted to cut off his comments during that meeting, Egger noted a section of the county code allowing anyone to speak for an unlimited time so long as two board members approve. Egger said during the public hearing that he had not planned on addressing the supervisors again, but the board’s “foolish actions” compelled him “to make another futile attempt.” He said the board needs to amend the meeting rules to coincide with the county code, not the other way around.
The Northern Virginia Daily
Virginia Commonwealth University is withholding nearly 50 pages of documents regarding a recently hired professor who was involved in a racially charged incident at the school late last year. The university is citing personnel exemptions in its decision to withhold several dozen emails to and from the president of the public institution. Virginia’s freedom of information law is notably strict. Frank LoMonte, director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida, said that under Virginia’s FOIA law, “the amount that [a public employee] is paid and the terms of the contract are public record, but just about nothing else is.”
The College Fix
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