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Board discusses a finance committee with public members; attorney warns about quorum, authority and ethics
Summary
The board discussed creating a finance committee that could include commissioners and public experts. City Attorney counsel advised making the committee recommendation-only, defining quorum carefully to avoid triggering open‑meetings issues or effectively enlarging the board, and considering ethics disclosures for outside members.
The Housing Authority spent a substantial portion of its Dec. 10 meeting discussing the possible creation of a finance committee to provide greater oversight and support for audits, budgets and recovery-plan work.
Greg Cruz of the City Attorney’s Office told commissioners that while state law likely allows the board to create a finance committee (expressly or by implication of its finance responsibilities), the committee should not be given independent final…
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