PORT TOWNSEND — A lawsuit has been filed against most of Jefferson Healthcare’s board of commissioners as well as its CEO, Mike Glenn, for allegedly violating the Open Public Meetings Act.

The suit was filed with the Jefferson County Superior Court. No hearings have been scheduled.

An initial complaint was filed Oct. 23 by Arthur West of Olympia, an Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) advocate. In an amended complaint filed Nov. 3, he named hospital board chair Jill Buhler Rienstra, commissioners Kees Kolff, Bruce McComas and Marie Dressler, along with Glenn, as defendants.

West alleged that in a Feb. 5 meeting, the defendants discussed a Peninsula Health Alliance (PHA) proposal in executive session, without a valid exemption from OPMA. No pending litigation, threatened litigation or real-e

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