By R. Neal
From the
Knoxville News Sentinel [1], Mayor Cunningham names County Commissioners Wendy Pitts Reeves, David Graham, and Monika Murrell.
According to the aricle, Mayor Cunningham says they accompanied a "citizen activist" to Nashville yesterday for a meeting with the State Comptroller's office to discuss "perceived irregularities" regarding county finances.
UPDATE: Edited to correctly identify David Graham and "citizen acitivist." Follow the link to the article by Robert Wilson for full details.
UPDATE:
WBIR has more: [2]
"They completely side-stepped the legislative process," Cunningham said. "It's a vigilante witch-hunt process. I'm angered by it."
When asked what he thought would come of all of this, Graham responded "Nothing, because it wasn't a meeting."
UPDATE: The Maryville Daily Times files
this report [3], with more details and comments from several individuals involved in the controversy. The article also quotes state law on meetings coverted by the open meetings act. The article fails to mention this part:
Nothing in this section shall be construed as to require a chance meeting of two (2) or more members of a public body to be considered a public meeting. No such chance meetings, informal assemblages, or electronic communication shall be used to decide or deliberate public business in circumvention of the spirit or requirements of this part.
As was debated ad absurdum in the Knox County case, the key part is "deliberate."