Gookin Claims Open Meeting Violation

At Dan’s Campaign Blog, Dan Gookin castigates Mayor Sandi Bloem and the Coeur d’Alene City Council for writing into the Coeur d’Alene Press to denounce the attack by Jim Brannon’s followers on their character. Gookin claims their was some sort of an Open Meeting Law violation. He claims it was signed in “their official capacities.” Quoth Gookin: “When did the council make the decision to sign that letter? Was it made in public? Where was it deliberated? Where was the decision made? No discussion of this letter or its contents was made at the last regular city council meeting. There has been no 48 hour notice for any meeting, even an “emergency” meeting of the city council.”

Question: What do you think? Does Gookin have a point?