The Lenexa City Council meeting on Tuesday devolved into finger-pointing as two councilmembers went back and forth in a heated exchange over a ruling that several councilmembers broke Kansas’ open meetings law.
From the dais on Tuesday, Councilmember Bill Nicks accused four other councilmembers of “secretly involving” him in private conversations about a proposed Habitat for Humanity housing development in western Lenexa before the council took a vote on the project in February.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach ruled on Sept. 16 that five councilmembers, including Nicks, had broken the Kansas Open Meetings Act, or KOMA, a state law that requires meetings of state and local public agencies to be open and transparent to the public…