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Bountiful council completes annual open-meetings training, warned against 'serial communications'
Summary
City Attorney Bridal Jepsen led the council through the state-required Open and Public Meetings Act training, using a State Auditor's Office video and advising members to avoid text/phone chains and walking quorums that can void prior actions and be subpoenaed.
Bountiful's City Attorney led the council through the annual Open and Public Meetings Act training on Feb. 24, using a State Auditor's Office video to review when meetings must be open, when a governing body may lawfully close a session and how minutes and recordings must be handled.
The video and the attorney's summary emphasized that a public-body quorum meeting to discuss government business constitutes an open meeting. The training reminded members that regular meetings, public hearings, electronic meetings and emergency meetings all count as open and public meetings and that public bodies must give 24 hours’ notice for regular meetings and post agendas on the entity website, in a public location and on Utah’s public notice website under Utah…
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