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    Brown Act CPRA

    Are a city manager’ meetings with his staff covered by the Brown Act?

     Recently I learned our City Manager approved the implementation of a significant change to a public fee-paid service without presenting it for a city council review or approval, thus also without ever notifying the affected public as a whole or the media of the change. Impacted residents were individually notified to comply with the […]

    January 18, 2015

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    Brown Act CPRA School Records

    Charter schools and the CPRA

    […] place such as controversial board member resignations, votes to amend bylaws, votes that involved irregular activities and potential conflicts of interest and self-dealing. The minutes I've asked for do exist. They were referred to in other future meetings when the minutes were approved from past meetings. It has now been more than two weeks and […]

    July 26, 2013

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    Brown Act

    Personal attacks in public meetings

    In a closed session meeting, under The Brown Act, do the normal rules of order and decorum apply? We have a situation where some board members feel they can viciously and personally attack other members of the board with impunity. As this is a closed session, they feel that nothing can be done.

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Limiting Public Comment at Meetings

    […] my City Council can limit comment during a single meeting by a member of the public to five minutes total for a particular class of items (consent agenda items), no matter how many items are categorized as such, and no matter how many items an individual wishes to speak to. I have never heard […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Bagley-Keene Act

    Is a task force a “state body” under the Bagley-Keene Act?

    Caltrans is holding Highway Task Force meetings and it has been announced that these meetings will not be open to the public. I received the following reply from the Caltrans public affairs: Since this is not a public meeting, the task force meeting will be made up of 10 members from each community that […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Appointing board members and the Brown Act

    […] It says, "Board vacancies will be widely advertised in the regional media and to countywide educational and non-profit organizations in order to reach a broad population.  Applications for Board service shall be made available to the public on the school website and only those applications received by November 1st of the year prior to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Videotaped of open meeting and reproduction

    Re: CPRA request for audio taped record of open meeting: I have submitted a request for copies of tapes made of 3 open hospital board meetings, held within 3 weeks of each other. I submitted the request well before 30 days had passed from the first meeting, and before the minutes had been transcribed […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Individual Meetings for Review

    […] person.  If the architect served in essence as a go-between to allow a majority of the board to engage in what amounts to collective deliberation, or to form a consensus on how they would vote if the architect made certain changes, that could implicate the prohibition on serial meetings.  But otherwise, the one-on-one meetings […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Criteria for Serial Meeting

    […] 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 there need to be for this to be established as a serial meeting?

    June 14, 2009