Guest opinion: Woodside decision-making process fails to engage larger community

The Brown act specifically allows TEMPORARY committees of any size to operate without public exposure. [Portion removed. Please make your point without personal attacks.]

Since the last election we have several smart people on the council. Let's let them do their jobs [portion removed.]


Editor's note: A committee, whether permanent or temporary, created by a "legislative body," such as a town council, is itself a legislative body subject to the Brown Act unless that committee is made up solely of members of the council. The committee in question has two non-council members. Below is the text from the Brown Act.

54952. As used in this chapter, "legislative body" means:
(a) The governing body of a local agency or any other local body created by state or federal statute.
(b) A commission, committee, board, or other body of a local agency, whether permanent or temporary, decisionmaking or advisory, created by charter, ordinance, resolution, or formal action of a legislative body. However, advisory committees, composed solely of the members of the legislative body that are less than a quorum of the legislative body are not legislative bodies, except that standing committees of a legislative body, irrespective of their composition, which have a continuing subject matter jurisdiction, or a meeting schedule fixed by charter, ordinance, resolution, or formal action of a legislative body are legislative bodies for purposes of this chapter.

I agree with Steve---
"The council should scrap its current committee and form a broad-based committee, open to public participation..."

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