PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The Lincoln County Commission has been found to have violated a portion of South Dakota’s open-meetings law.
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The South Dakota Open Meetings Commission on Monday decided the Lincoln County Commission didn’t comply with a requirement to notify the public that a quorum of its members might attend an event that NuGen Energy held for Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed carbon-dioxide pipeline last year.
The state panel found that the Lincoln County Commission specifically violated the portion of South Dakota’s meeting-notice law pertaining to “any event hosted by a nongovernmental entity to which a quorum of the public body is invited and public policy may be discussed, but the public body does not control the agenda.”
The Lincoln County Commission has five members. Three of them — Joel Arends, James Jibben and Michael Poppens — attended an open house that NuGen Energy of Marion hosted for Summit Carbon Solutions on November 28, 2023.