The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has filed suit against the Kane and Garfield County commissions, claiming the commissioners’ meetings with Secretary Ryan Zinke in his review of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument were official meetings that fall under the Utah Open and Public Meetings Act.
Because it’s SUWA filing suit, this immediately becomes part of the culture wars between the old guard commissioners and the environmentalists. That’s too bad. In fact, any citizen of those counties should be demanding that the commissioners do the county’s business – the people’s business – in front of the people.