City defends decision to bar public

SANDPOINT — The city is aggressively defending its decision to shut the public out of a meeting involving oil and coal train traffic issues on Thursday.

City attorney Scot Campbell said the meeting was not public because there was no quorum among the elected officials from other cities and Bonner County. State Sen. Shawn Keough and officials from the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality also attended.

“It was a group of regional leaders and invited guests, including IDEQ, taking the opportunity to meet with their senator to discuss an issue of regional, if not statewide, concern,” Campbell said in an email.

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