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OSBA webinar outlines new mandatory public-meeting training and updated meeting rules
Summary
Presenters from the Oregon School Boards Association walked Parkrose board members through recent changes to Oregon public meetings law, including a new mandatory training requirement for governing bodies with annual expenditures of $1 million or more and updated definitions of "meeting," "convening," and virtual-meeting requirements.
Board members viewed a recorded Oregon School Boards Association (OSBA) training on Sept. 8 that the district said satisfies a new requirement from the Oregon Government Ethics Commission (OGEC). Haley Purcell, OSBA chief legal officer, told the board the law now requires governing bodies with total expenditures of $1,000,000 or more to complete public-meetings training once per term of office.
“This is a law that requires, governing bodies with total expenditures of $1,000,000 or more to have mandatory public meeting training once during each term of office,” Purcell said…
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