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<p><center><font face="Arial,sans" size="+3" color="maroon"><b><i><a href="monument/lotsale.htm">Selling Our History</a></i></b></font></center>
<br><br><font size="4" color="maroon">The Town of Romney has <strong>sold</strong> two choice burial slots in the space next to the Confederate Soldiers grave sites to Royce Saville for his personal use. This is an egregious conversion of part of a 150 year old historic site to personal use by someone.<a href="monument/lotsale.htm"> <b>Click here for more information</b></a> on this <b><i>breaking of a sacred trust</i></b> to hand on our historic sites to future generations as we received them!
<br><br><font size="4" color="maroon">UPDATE: On December 7, 2017 a suit was filed in Hampshire County Circuit Court against the Town of Romney contending that the out-of-court settlement agreed to by the Town of Romney and Royce Saville violated the Open Governmental Prceedings Act and West Virginia Code &#167;8-12-18(b). The suit seeks injunctive relief prohibiting the transfer of the lots and such further relief as the court may deem appropriate. The law provides that the court may find that any person who willfully and knowingly violates the ... [Act] is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. We will keep you posted on the progress of this suit.
<br><br>We had a court appearance March 18, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. in the Romney Judicial Center. The judge wants more documents, and the Town is getting an opinion from the West Virginia Ethics Commission. We will wait to see what happens next. Click on the title above for a link to more information.
<br><br>The Town decided not to get an ethics opinion. The Court denied our request for intervention, so in October, 2019 we appealed that decision to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Again we wait for their decision. (Jan., 2020)
<br><br><b>Update: 9/30/20</b> The Supreme Court of Appeals rejected our petition to intervene in the original case, so we will continue with our suit filed under the West Virginia Open Meetings Act. This is based on the secretive way the new Mayor reversed the Town's orginal decision to fight Mr. Saville's suit to force sale and on the decision to give the remaining plots to a private corporation contrary to West Virginia law. We will keep you posted when the court takes up this suit.
<br><br>Next Court hearing is November 30, 2020. Stay tuned.
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<br><b>Update:</b> At the November 30, 2020 hearing the Town had made a motion to dismiss. The judge said he was considering removing the individual Town Council members from the suit that was brought under the Open Meetings Act. We have since filed a Plaintiff's Brief outlining our case and asking for a bench trial. We await the judge's next move. <b>The brief which outlines the facts of the case can be <a href="monument/Filing122120Garrett.pdf">seen/downloaded here.</a></b>
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