City attorneys to turn over closed-door details
City attorneys plan to turn over details over what went on during a closed-door executive session by city commissioners. Enlarge video
Answers about what went on in a closed-door executive session by city commissioners will have to wait until Monday.
City attorneys earlier this week agreed to turn over documents that were submitted to the Kansas attorney general for an investigation into a closed-door session regarding economic development incentives for Deciphera Pharmaceuticals.
But city leaders said they wouldn't turn over the documents until a final settlement on an open meetings violation by commissioners was signed by Attorney General Paul Morrison. That settlement didn't get signed by Morrison on Friday because he was out of the office, City Attorney Jerry Cooley said.
Cooley said he anticipates the settlement - which required commissioners to receive training on the open meetings law - to be finalized Monday.
The documents include sworn statements from all commissioners about what was discussed in the closed-door session.
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ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
"But city leaders said they wouldn't turn over the documents until a final settlement on an open meetings violation by commissioners was signed by Attorney General Paul Morrison."
How the heck is a City Attorney settint terms when the city had the violation and admitted it? NOW they want the terms?
IF that is not an admission of guilt, I don;t know what is. IF the Atty. General does not withdraw this "settlement", then he looks as if he has ties and involved. They got a "sweetheart deal", and now are changing where the goalposts are.
Sorry Mr. City Atty., you do not run this show, show us the documents if it was all so innocent as per the settlement. If no docs, then I suggest the Atty. General go for the full boat on the OMA and really hammer the City of Lawrence.
Is it that Civil Servants and politicians can no longer descriminate between "RIGHT" and "WRONG"? Is it that these people are so protected and insulated that the believe that everything they do is ok?
Our Civil Servants and our Politicians are not automatically ethical, and do deserve scrutiny, especially in this case.
What is going to happen next Open Meetings Violation? No big deal again? Imagine what can slip through in the future. That is why the violation needs to have a painful penality, to deter. If this is all they re going to go through, well, hell, they will have open meetings violations all the time, on either side of the political fence.
This is where democracy ends, slowly and seemingly insignificantly, and slowely.
Where is the viglence on behalf of the citizens abd taxpayers?
ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
This is what I am talking about, here it happened in Topeka just this wwek,
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/12080...
dorothyhr (Dorothy Hoyt-Reed) says…
Is this more "executive privilege crud"? These documents are city documents and should be made public. The secrecy that our elected officials seem to want so much needs to stop. They want us to believe that allowing our phone lines to be tapped, looking into medical records, etc shouldn't worry us if we haven't done anything wrong, but if we want to know what they are up to, they cry foul, from the president, and now on down to our local officials. It's time we reminded them that they work for us. What they do on this job is our business.
Kontum1972 (anonymous) says…
what a friggin mess...this reaks of corruption...and the investors and city commissioners are laffin all the way to the bank and at us as to what a bunch of dumb boobs we all are...
Kontum1972 (anonymous) says…
where is the KBI....?
Kontum1972 (anonymous) says…
so where is the KBI investigation?
how can we trust these people anymore?
so are they skimming off the dollars we invest in this city too?...do not put it past them...they are not doing this because they love lawrence..they do this to line their pockets...little by little they creep into the bank account....then u see them sitting in their special seats on the floor during basketball season looking so pompous..and laffing on the inside as to what a bunch of dumb donkeys we are..why dont we suggest that a real investigator someone from outside lawrence and not associated with with the city or the state step in and pull up the carpet....this really stinks...remember the phrase in the movie "Network" I am Mad as Hell and I am Not going to take it anymore!.....politics------>corruption-----self gain...
ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
Unh OH spankey! IT seems as if this Atty General got caught literally with his pants down and now has a federal Civil RIghts claim on him for sex while in office.
http://cjonline.com/stories/120807/br...
I think he is going to be a little "distracted!
What is it with the quality of the politicians? We either get some lunatic like Phil Kline, or someone that is stupid like Morrison!
Are there any good public servants and politicians anymore, or are they a myth?
toefungus (anonymous) says…
Yep, Asbestos. Looks like Morrison will be busy taking care of his own legal troubles. Now we know why is was so liberal with the law.
Godot (anonymous) says…
This is what Morrison said just two days ago:
""It's a public corruption case, and anything that happens in a case like that needs to be done in open court for everybody to see," Morrison said, adding that he was not informed of the telephoned plea until after it happened.
Kansas law is clear that pleas need to be handled in a public hearing, he said."
That was Edgerton, where a city official fixed traffic tickets. Why is that more deserving of public scutiny than what went on in Lawrence with the admission of the violation of open meetings statutes resulting in a multi-million dollar giveaway to the company in which public officials have a financial interest, and where a public official failed to disclose that interest?
Why the double standard, Mr. Morrison?
Perhaps this is off topic, perhaps not: How were you able to purchase a $15,000 engagement ring for your mistress without your wife knowing about it, Mr. Morrison?