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Council’s Evaluations of City Manager Are Requested, Destroyed

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The Fort Morgan Times sent a Colorado Open Records Act request to the city asking for copies of the evaluation forms of each council member in rating the town’s new city manager. The council directed the city attorney “work with” the paper on the request, according to minutes of an executive session five days later. And five days after that, the city attorney advised the paper the documents were not public record and had been destroyed. (1/9/08)

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