In her press release issued on October 31, 2014, reprinted as an op-ed piece entitled Nelson:  Firing Delavan Was Wrong in today’s local skewspaper, Kootenai County Commissioner Jai Nelson expressed her opinion on the firing of Greg Delavan from his position as manager of the Coeur d’Alene Airport (COE).

What particularly interested OpenCdA about the firing is that according to the Coeur d’Alene Press skewspaper, Delavan was fired by the Board of County Commissioners on Friday, October 24.  Commissioner Nelson’s press release and subsequent op-ed piece both included this statement from her:  “I was not in attendance in the meeting when he [Delavan] was dismissed.” 

With its usual sloppy and incomplete reporting, the Coeur d’Alene Press and its reporter Jeff Selle leave readers with the impression that the decision to fire Delavan was made by the Board of County Commissioners during a meeting on Friday, October 24.  It may have been, but according to Kootenai County’s online agendas of public meetings, there was no public meeting scheduled by the County Commissioners on Friday, October 24.

So when did the Board of County Commissioners meet in a properly announced open public meeting and make the decision to fire COE airport manager Greg Delavan? (more…)