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Planning commission receives Brown Act refresher: public comment rules, serial meetings and public-records risks
Summary
Commissioners attended a Brown Act training covering meeting types, remote-attendance rules, serial-meeting restrictions, public-comment time limits (3 minutes standard), and public-records-act considerations for commissioner communications.
Plumas County staff provided an extended Brown Act training during the Oct. 15 planning-commission meeting, reviewing open-meeting rules, how to avoid serial meetings and recommended practices for managing public comment.
Staff reiterated the core Brown Act principle: meetings of a governmental legislative body must be open to the public so deliberations occur in public rather than behind closed-door workshops. The trainer described typical exemptions (some attorney-client communications) and cautioned commissioners against…
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