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Search Results for: Notice & agenda requirements for closed meetings – Page 3

A&A: New rule places unreasonable time restraints on public comments

FAC March 5, 2012

Q: The new rule one of the county supervisors has been threatening to make formal, requires constituent speakers to aggregate all remarks on as many as a dozen or more separate items into one three minute slot isolated from other speakers and staff who may have commentary on individual items. This requires the speaker to provide a brief identifying description of each item, as the three  minutes clock is running. This process also segregates speakers

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A&A: Restrictions on Agendas and Minutes

FAC March 4, 2012

Q: I am attempting to report on city government and  have learned that the city only offers citizens the chance to view agendas during normal business hours. If one wishes to obtain copies, the city charges $.15 per black and white page. Past agendas and minutes can be obtained by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope. Agendas and minutes are also not available online. It appears very un-American to set limited time parameters and charge citizens

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A&A: Does short notice of public hearing invalidate contract?

FAC June 23, 2010

Q: DMV code requires a Public Hearing before entering into a Red-Light Camera Contract. I contend the new contract our city council has approved is invalid because the requirement for a public hearing was not met. The city manager proposed a new contract when the current contract expires June 30. The Public Hearing was noticed on May 18 in a local newspaper for a June 1 meeting, at which time the city council  was to

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A&A: Discussion of Employee Termination in Closed Session

firstamendment June 13, 2009

Discussion of Employee Termination in Closed Session Q: In 2007, the City held its last budget study session and on the closed session my job, as Director of Finance, title or position was never put on for discussion, nor was my job title put on for closed session since I started with the City. The next morning the mayor and the City manager were waiting for me to terminate my employment with the City. The

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A&A: Regularly Scheduled Special Meetings

firstamendment June 13, 2009

Regularly Scheduled Special Meetings Q: Can a regularly scheduled meeting be called a “Special Meeting” Can a Closed Session be called a Special Meeting if the “reporting out” is part of the immediately following regular meeting? A: Under the Brown Act, a “special meeting” may be called to discuss or act on a matter that is too pressing to delay until a regular meeting, or an issue that deserves extensive consideration unburdened by other business. 

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