The investigation into a complaint filed last September by former Meeker Vice Mayor Cheryl Buoy asking three agencies to investigate the Town Board ofMeeker apparently is still ongoing.
Buoy filed and signed a formal complaint signed last Sep. 27, more than seven months ago, claiming board members had violated the law.
District Attorney Allan Grubb’s Public Information Officer Neal Davis issued this statement on Monday of this week. “District Attorney Allan Grubb takes every crime seriously including Open Meetings Act violations.
“The District 23 investigators are the best in their field and are relentless and committed to understanding every aspect of a crime before charges are filed. District Attorney Grubb does not place a time limit on solving any crime which has its own challenges and obstacles.
“Personally, I am extremely impressed with the amount of criminals that the DistrictAttorney, along with his drug task force and investigators, have been able to get convicted and off of our streets.”
Davis said he still didn’t know what the timeline on the investigation might be.
In September Buoy asked that Allan Grubb, Lincoln County Sheriff Charlie Dougherty’s Office and the Meeker Police Department investigate the Town Board of Meeker.
The correspondence reportedly was hand carried and sent by registered mail to these agencies.
Her letter to authorities read, “I would like to make a formal complaint and that your office investigates the Town Board of Meeker, OK. I feel they have violated the law in the following manners, having a pre-meeting and or pre-meetings, violating the Open Meeting Act, meeting serially with select members of the board and investigation if the full due process of the law occurred with regards to the removal of Cheryl Buoy from her position on the board.”
Buoy goes on to say, “Please contact me in regards to this request and let me know if your office plans to investigate.”
Meeker Police Chief Trent Norton was contacted about the letter in September. “It was hand delivered to my Assistant Police Chief Scott Wilson around 4 to 4:30 Friday (Sep. 27) and he handed it off to me,” Norton stated.
“I called the District Attorney’s Office the following Monday morning and they advised they are investigating it,” he added.
“We don’t do anything since the DA is investigating. And it would be a conflict of interest for us to enter that investigation,” Norton further noted.
Lincoln County Sheriff Charlie Dougherty had no comment on the issue.
The Town Board removed Buoy from her seat during a special meeting Aug. 28 last year. A week later, on Sep. 4 during another special meeting, the board called for a special election to be held on Nov. 12 to fill the vacant seat.
She later ran for the vacant seat and placed second among four candidates. Jeff Wilbourn was elected.
Buoy was removed from the board due to her not fulfilling a requirement of attending a class within one year of her initial appointment. That occurred in May of 2018.
She suffered a stroke and a brain bleed on April 26 of last year. There is no provision in the law that allows for any exceptions to fulfill that requirement.