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City attorney reviews Open and Public Meetings Act, highlights recent clarification on social gatherings
Summary
Brigham City’s city attorney led the council in their required annual Open and Public Meetings Act training, reviewing what constitutes a meeting, rules for closed sessions and a recent legislative clarification about social gatherings.
Nicole Caudill, Brigham City’s city attorney, led an annual Open and Public Meetings Act training during the council’s 5:30 p.m. work session on April 3, telling council members the law’s purpose is transparency and that the body must take city business in public except for limited, stated exceptions.
“The Open and Public Meetings Act exists so that there is transparency and so that a public business is taken care of in public,” Caudill told the council, and she reviewed the most commonly used exceptions that permit closed…
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