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Commissioners, mayor and volunteer board members met in violation of state law

by WILL LANGHORNE
The Western News | March 30, 2021 7:00 AM

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Local elected officials met, without public notice, with members from the Troy Area Dispatch Board at the Silver Spur on March 9. Legal experts said the gathering violated the Montana Constitution and state law. (Will Langhorne/The Western News)

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Local elected officials met, without public notice, with members from the Troy Area Dispatch Board at the Silver Spur on March 9. Legal experts said the gathering violated the Montana Constitution and state law. (Will Langhorne/The Western News)

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Local elected officials met, without public notice, with members from the Troy Area Dispatch Board at the Silver Spur on March 9. Legal experts said the gathering violated the Montana Constitution and state law. (Will Langhorne/The Western News)

Two county commissioners, a mayor and members of a local board met over breakfast earlier this month to discuss the future of the Troy Area Dispatch District, in what open meeting law experts deem a violation of state law.

The longstanding question of what to do with the dispatch service has opened a rift between city residents who want it maintained and county property owners pushing to dissolve it...

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