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Board votes to require public calendars and attendee disclosure for elected officials, with exceptions and a new disclosure rule
Summary
The board approved on first reading a change to the Sunshine Ordinance that requires members of the Board of Supervisors and other elected officials to keep public calendars and to record meeting attendees for small meetings, subject to exemptions and a good-faith standard.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on July 16 to pass on first reading amendments to the Sunshine Ordinance requiring the board and other elected city officials to maintain publicly available calendars of official meetings and to report attendees for meetings of 10 people or fewer.
Supervisor David Campos introduced the ordinance; Supervisor John Avalos was lead sponsor of the amended ordinance. Deputy City Attorney John Gibner summarized the amendment of the whole: calendar-keeping would require naming attendees only for meetings of 10 people or fewer (not counting the official), officials would have three business days to…
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