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City attorney warns youth commissioners about Brown Act 'daisy chains' and explains follow-up-log process
Summary
Sacramento City Attorney staff advised the Youth Commission on when and how to place requests on the commission’s follow-up log and warned that informal serial communications can violate the Ralph M. Brown Act; staff urged commissioners to use public agenda time to avoid creating unintentional meetings.
Harveen Gill, an attorney in the Sacramento City Attorney’s Office, told the Sacramento Youth Commission on May 4 that commissioners must take care when discussing commission business outside meetings to avoid violating the Ralph M. Brown Act.
"So going back to my ... animal husbandry example ... before you know it, we've had accidentally created a serial meeting where enough people on our commission are aware of this desire," Gill said, describing a "daisy chain" scenario in which sequential private contacts among commissioners can amount to a prohibited quorum. She described a second common…
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