Transportation commissioners won’t fight ethics finding
wo state transportation commissioners will not object to a preliminary ruling by Ethics Commission Executive Director Tom Hood that they violated the open meetings law.
Hood said late Wednesday that Commissioners Bill Minor of the Northern District and Wayne Brown of the Southern District withdrew their objection to his decision.
Last week, when Hood’s recommendation was released, the commissioners said they intended to object.
But Minor said Wednesday, “Let them do whatever they are going to do. I just want to get it over with.”
The finding concerned the commissioners’ presence at an August dinner in Jackson in which they met with officials from Madison County and discussed an interchange project.
The third commissioner, Dick Hall, was not at the meeting and filed the complaint with the commission.
Daily Journal
10/8/9
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