The Energy Futures Task Force was appointed by the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners in September and held its first meeting in October. For its first three or four monthly meetings, the task force did not post prior notices on leelanau.gov or make minutes publicly available.
Leelanau Energy President Joe DeFors was named chair of the Energy Futures Task Force at the October meeting. DeFors said that since the group was appointed as a “task force,” they did not know whether they were considered a public body, which are required to post meeting notices and minutes under the Michigan Open Meetings Act (OMA).
Tuesday, Leelanau County commissioners and Interim Administrator Richard Lewis received email correspondence between county Clerk Michelle Crocker and the county’s legal counsel, Cohl, Stoker, & Toskey, P.C.
