MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown, the town of Star City and the Monongalia County Commission have each canceled their regularly scheduled meetings this week.
Just after 8:30 a.m. Monday, an updated Morgantown City Council agenda was posted on the city of Morgantown’s website indicating Tuesday evening’s regular meeting had been cancelled.
Morgantown Communications Director Brad Riffee explained, “We want to ensure full compliance with the Open Governmental Meetings Act, which requires that agendas be properly posted in advance of the scheduled meeting.”
The Open Governmental Meetings Act states agendas are to be posted three business days prior to the meeting time – meaning by 7 p.m. the Thursday prior for a Tuesday evening meeting. The original meeting agenda posted to the city’s site missed that mark by about three hours.
Riffee explained that several of the agenda items scheduled for the canceled session will likely be addressed in a forthcoming special meeting, while less urgent matters will be pushed to the first regular meeting in August.
Likewise, Star City Town Council will not hold its regularly scheduled Tuesday meeting.
Mayor Sharon Doyle said the decision came down to missing members and a simple lack of agenda items.
“We cancel ours periodically,” Doyle said, explaining the city’s bylaws require only one meeting every 30 days. “We have two meetings a month. We can cancel one of them if we don’t have anything on the agenda … It’s a lack of agenda items and we’ve got some folks on vacation. There wasn’t going to be any new business on this agenda anyway, so we’re just going to go ahead and cancel it.”
Star City Town Council will hold its next regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Aug. 5.
Moving on to Wednesday, the Monongalia County Commission will not convene for its 10 a.m. weekly meeting.
The commission voted to cancel the meeting on June 25, noting one commissioner will be out of town on vacation and another commissioner – and the commission office staff – will be in Philadelphia for the National Association of Counties Annual Conference and Exposition.
The commission will return to its regular schedule on July 23.
