Today’s issue of The State Register contained two meetings that violated the public notice requirements of West Virginia’s open meetings law. The agencies involved were the Fayette County Board of Health and the Information Technology Council.
As we’ve reminded folks before, the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act requires agencies to send meeting notices to the Secretary of State in time for notices to appear in the State Register five days prior to a scheduled meeting. Every week, we list the agencies that didn’t comply, thanks to the Secretary of State’s office, which kindly marks those agencies with an asterisk in the list of meetings published each Friday in the Register.
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The law should include a $1000.00 fine for the head of that agency and the person responsible for not publishing the meeting appropriately. Any raise given to the chief of that agency should be withdrawn after a second time and if two agencies in the state government have done this the wages of the governor should be cut by $10,000 and if a third time his salary should be cut in half..