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Westcliffe Board of Trustees appear to have violated Colorado Open Meeting Laws

During a special meeting on December 12, the Town of Westcliffe’s Board of Trustee (BOT) agenda stated that it was discussing the structure of the town government with a presentation put together by the (now former) Town Manager Caleb Patterson. However, by the end of the meeting, Mayor Paul Wenke was confusedly stating that he wanted Patterson to resign and then changing his story that Patterson had resigned during an executive session. Patterson disagreed and stated that when the board went into a non-public meeting known as an “executive session” that was titled on the agenda as “Executive Session – For the purpose of determining positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations, under C.R.S. Section 24-6-402(4)(e) regarding job description of Town Manager”…