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Porterville charter committee told Brown Act limits email discussion; staff to seek Form 700 guidance
Summary
At its first meeting the Porterville Charter Review Committee was briefed on open-meeting rules, risks of serial communications and potential Form 700 filing requirements; staff will ask the city attorney for clarification and training resources.
At the committee’s first meeting members were warned that California’s open-meeting rules limit how they may communicate outside public sessions and that failing to follow them could nullify committee work.
Alexander Reid Crace, an attorney on the committee, said “the city wanted this to be subject to the Brown Act because we’re giving legislative advice.” Members discussed that substantive exchanges over email or serial phone calls could create a prohibited “serial meeting”…
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