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Pat Mattison and Cathy Ward want to move contract negotiations into the open.
The county must iron out new contracts with Sheriff’s Department deputies and correction officers, whose three-year contracts expire in November, and the United Auto Workers circuit clerk unit, whose two-year contracts also expire in November. The public safety dispatchers’ two-year contract expires in November as well.

If two additional board members were to attend the meetings, aside from the three members included on the negotiating team — board Chairman Bob Walberg, Vice Chair Terri Glass and Administrative and Legislative Committee Chairman Anthony Dini — the meetings may need to be open to avoid an Open Meetings Act violation by having a majority of a County Board committee quorum present at a closed, unpublished meeting, Boone County State’s Attorney Michelle Courier

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