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Policy committee flags agenda change as potential Sunshine Act violation; staff accepts responsibility
Summary
Policy committee members said a post-meeting agenda wording change — listing a motion as a 'second reading' — may violate the Sunshine Act because it altered the posted agenda within 24 hours; a staff member acknowledged responsibility and said the error came from editing the working agenda.
A policy committee member raised a possible Sunshine Act violation on Sept. 8 after noticing the posted committee agenda had been altered to list a motion as a "second reading" when that was incorrect. The committee member said changing the motion wording after the agenda was posted could constitute more than a de minimis change and, if reported by the public, could expose individual board members to fines.
The committee member told colleagues the problem was not the policy text itself but the wording of the motion printed on the agenda. "When the agenda was posted... it did state that we…
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