Open Meeting Law violation?

The Lakeland Board of Commissioners suspended the rules and voted tonight to fund the $3 million construction deposit for the I-40 interchange. Chris Thomas, city manager, explained that the money has to be sent to Nashville by Apr. 11 which is before the BOC meets for their regular session Apr. 15. The money is part of the City’s capital budget, but Mayor Wyatt Bunker said this is still a big deal for Lakeland. He said this project was started in 2008, bids will be let in May, construction will start in July and the process will continue for three years

Interesting to note that this action was taken at a "Work Session"  (with no voting) and without any posted notice.  How can the City of Lakeland Board of Commissioners "suspend the rules" of a Tennessee State Law as noted below?


Tennessee’s Open Meetings Law is codified at Tennessee Code Annotated, § 8- 44-101 et seq. Tennessee Code Annotated, § 8-44-102 requires that “All meetings of any governing body are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times, except as provided by the Constitution of Tennessee. It also requires that “Any such governmental body which holds a meeting previously scheduled by statute, ordinance, or resolution, or for which notice is not already provided by law, shall give adequate public notice of such meeting. Tennessee Code Annotated, § 8-44-13 also requires: 

(a) NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETINGS. Any such governmental body which holds a meeting previously scheduled by statute, ordinance, or resolution shall give adequate public notice of such meeting. 
(b ) NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS. Any such governmental body which holds a meeting not previously scheduled by statute, ordinance, or resolution, or for which notice is not already provided by law, shall give adequate public notice of such meetings.