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AT CHAIRMAN Pete Luke’s behest, the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors will hold a closed door, “executive work session” to talk about a wide variety of county business. The time has been tentatively set for 7 p.m. on February 24.
“Closed door” may not be a strictly accurate description. Colonel Luke left the door ajar slightly by telling members of the press they could attend the meeting if they wanted to, but that they could not write anything about it. Two reporters at last Thursday’s February meeting of the Supervisors declined the qualified invitation.
Luke, when challenged about the legality of the meeting under Virginia’s Freedom of Information law—which states specific reasons which justify closed sessions— said he “didn’t go along” with the law if it interfered with the Supervisors getting together to “let down their hair” in talking about county business.
When newsmen persisted in asking for specific reasons for the upcoming closed session, as stipulated under the FOI law, Luke got red in the face and said if the meeting he wanted held couldn’t qualify, “we’ll just work out some other arrangement—I’ve got to be allowed to hold a staff meeting...”
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