CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Missouri attorney general’s office says the Carthage City Council was in violation of Missouri’s Sunshine Law when it held an emergency meeting June 15 to discuss what it said were threats being made over a dispute between the council and the Carthage Water & Electric Board.
The council voted at its regular meeting Tuesday to amend the minutes of that June 15 meeting to explain why it was held without the 24-hour notice required by state statute.
The June 15 meeting was a special meeting held, according Mayor Dan Rife, to discuss threats from some employees of Carthage Water & Electric Plant that had been directed at council members and a few other city employees.
On Tuesday, the council amended the minutes of that meeting, adding a paragraph at the beginning of the minutes that says: “The departure from the normal requirements of providing at least 24 hours’ notice of this meeting was to alert the council to threats that were made to city staff and at least one council member, from Carthage Water & Electric employees and to discuss potential disciplinary action for those who made the threats.”
It also was at the June 15 meeting that the council, after emerging from the closed session, declared the entire CW&EP board of directors immediately ousted from their appointed seats.
Rife said after that meeting that the board’s dismissal had not been discussed in the closed session.
At the time, Rife said the utility board was dismissed...
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