Letter: The rights of citizens should come first

A number of years ago I retired from a public entity in Rangely. Some time after retiring I discovered while reading minutes of this entity that the trustees met at public meetings and discussed making an amendment to previous minutes drafted, but the trustees, allegedly, did not record in the minutes the information voted on and they would not disclose that information to a taxpayer when requested.
Colorado Revised Statute 24-6-401, which is state law,…