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San Joaquin Delta trustees vote down penalty for serial meeting infraction

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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Stockton: Grand Jury finds three college board trustees in violation of California’s open meetings law

The County Grand Jury has recommended that three members of the San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees be censured for violating the Brown Act,the state’s open meetings law. -db The Record June 29, 2010 By Jennifer Torres STOCKTON — Three members of the San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees should be censured for violating the state’s open-meetings law, the county grand jury recommended in a report released Monday. The trustees — identified in

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A&A: Criteria for Serial Meeting

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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A&A: Serial Meetings

Q: I’m an education reporter, and have been covering local school boards for years. I need to clarify the term Serial Meeting. Can two board members meet to talk about issues in general — frustrations, general strategies, how to counter personal attacks — and then have one of them meet with a third board member to discuss the same types of general issues? Assume there is no discussion of how to vote on action items

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A&A: Collective concurrences, serial meeting, and the Brown Act

Collective concurrences, serial meeting, and the Brown Act Q: Much of the material I’ve found prohibits use of email when its intent is “to develop a collective concurrence as to action to be taken by the board”. What about using email to other directors to distribute information, to express an opinion, to alert them to an urgent matter, etc.? In other words, communication not intended to directly or immediately influence concurrence? For volunteer boards, especially

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