Nottoway Supervisors are indeed at liberty to divulge information marked “confidential attorney client privilege,” but such a release must be approved by the full Board.
That’s the assessment of Board Chairman Bill Collins, who Thursday night addressed a recent ‘leak’ of such information to the Courier-Record. “Our attorney said, ‘You all can do it, but you all have to do it together. And so what happened is that we lost the opportunity for a discussion in closed session about whether or not we’re ready.” (Related story: 8)
Collins said that if such a meeting had been held, “I was going to push that night for us to go ahead and do (release) it.”
Collins was referring to a letter from County Attorney Gary Elder advising the Board against setting a spending limit on new courthouse construction and also against issuing an RFP (Request for Proposals) and possibly abandoning a PPEA (Public Private Educational and Infrastructure Act) agreement with English Construction and Moseley Architects.
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