Opinion ID: 1268669
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Charge 1 (Filed Against Harry Teaford, Merle Barr, and Sharon Morasch)

Text: On June 26, 1984 at 7:15 p.m. at Medical Lake High School in the City of Medical Lake, Washington, the said Harry Teaford held a private meeting with School Board Members Sharon Morasch and Merle Barr just prior to a regularly scheduled public Board meeting. At this private meeting, the said Harry Teaford and the other two Board members, constituting a majority of the Board, discussed an agenda item and agreed to vote in the negative on the agenda item. In so doing, the said Harry Teaford committed misfeasance, malfeasance and violation of the oath of his office by participating in a private meeting of a majority of the Board of Directors without proper notice and participating in the making of a collective decision by the Board outside of public hearing, in violation of the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act, RCW 42.30. (Clerk's Papers (Teaford), at 4.)