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Trainer reviews Open and Public Meetings Act, records rules and electronic-meeting requirements
Summary
A regional adviser walked the council and planning commission through OPMA requirements, quorum rules, closed-meeting limits, minutes and recording retention under GRAMA, and the conditions for electronic meetings and public participation.
Spencer Foster of the Mountainland Association of Governments led a training for the Kamas City Council and Planning Commission on the Open and Public Meetings Act and related public-records rules.
Foster said the law's core purpose is transparency: "public bodies must conduct their business openly and with full transparency." He described who is covered by the act — "any administrative, advisory, executive or legislative body" — and explained that a quorum is a simple majority of the body and that "a decision cannot pass unless a majority approves it."
Foster outlined rules for closed meetings, saying…
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