Special District Notice Requirements Change
As we posted in July, Senate Bill 09-87 becomes effective September 1, 2009. This bill requires special districts to prepare annual disclosures of certain information to every elector of the district. A change to this requirement has been made which now calls for all posted notices of regular and special meetings of a special district to be posted a FULL 72 hours before the meeting time. The prior version of the statute required notices to be posted "at least three days prior to" a meeting. Recent cases have made it clear that courts look very closely at the technical aspects of special district meetings so following the law carefully is very important.