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California: St. Helena council accused of holding illegal ‘serial meeting’

donal brown April 21, 2011

The California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) is claiming that the St. Helena City Council violated the Brown Act, California’s open meeting act, when a town administrator sent a memo to council members of instructions to its Housing Subcommittee. In a series of e-mails, council members suggested changes to the instructions and approved them. Jesse Duarte in the St. Helena Star quoted Jim Ewert of the CNPA, “This is exactly the kind of back-room discussion that

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San Joaquin Delta trustees vote down penalty for serial meeting infraction

donal brown September 9, 2010

The San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees decided a grand jury’s finding that three of its members held a serial meeting to dismiss the former college district president was not detailed enough to warrant censuring the three. -db RecordNet.com September 9, 2010 By Alex Breitler STOCKTON – The San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees declined to censure three of its members for an alleged serial meeting to oust former President Raul Rodriguez. In

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A&A: “Briefings” on controversial project really serial meetings?

FAC August 18, 2010

Q: The planning commission was given six days to review a 117 page packet for a very controversial project for the gateway of our city, which has not been developed. The day before the commission hearing, the city manager held a series of “briefing” meetings with groups of the 2-3 planning commissioners at a time (our commission has 7 members). According to the schedule, more than a quorum of commissioners were scheduled for a meeting

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A&A: A Group of City Council Staffers Can Constitute a Serial Meeting, too

FAC July 12, 2010

Q: Our organization arranged a private meeting of some community stakeholders on a issue that will be coming before a city council committee, and we invited members of the staff of the three councilmen who make up that committee. However, we were told that only one staff member could attend, because any more would make it a violation of the Brown Act. Is it correct that meetings of elected officials’ staff members subject to the

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A&A: Criteria for Serial Meeting

firstamendment June 13, 2009

Criteria for Serial Meeting Q: Our former Mayor was involved in trying to develop a clandestine consensus to support his successor. Two councilmembers have said that the Mayor spoke about his support of his replacement, including the replacement himself, outside of a public meeting. We suspect a third, who often sides with the Mayor, was also consulted about who the Mayor was supporting, but we do not have definitive proof. What kind of criteria would

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