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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2015-03-30 | 8 | Chair Aguilar stated she does not have the Brown Act in front of her so she does not know if legislative body and policy body are synonymous. The Assistant City Attorney responded they are; stated that he is surmising that if the term legislative body had been used, people might be confused that it is just the City Council and not advisory bodies, so policy bodies was used instead; if agreeable to the Commission, a definition of policy bodies could be added because he is not sure if it is defined. Vice Chair Foreman stated it is defined. Chair Aguilar stated it is Subsection 2-91.1(b)(3). Vice Chair Foreman stated all it would say is the term is intended to be synonymous with the term legislative body as defined in the Brown Act; stated using policy bodies was a good idea; all bodies are not legislative bodies; policy bodies is smarter. Vice Chair Foreman moved approval of the change stated. Commissioner Dieter seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous voice vote - 3 The Assistant City Attorney inquired whether the Commission wants to make a motion to adopt all the changes, including the changes made tonight; stated an overall motion should be made to take forward to the Council. Commissioner Dieter moved approval of recommending to City Council the adoption of the changes that have been approved tonight and previously. Vice Chair Foreman seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous voice vote - 3 COMMISSION COMMUNICATIONS Commissioner Dieter stated the Commission is supposed to report to the City Council at least once a year in writing on any practical or policy problems encountered; read the Section of the Ordinance; inquired how the Commission plans on doing so; stated perhaps staff wants to bring back a proposal on how to accomplish doing so; the Commission only meets twice a year; she is not sure if it is possible for the Commission to write an annual report; the Sunshine Ordinance says that the Open Government Commission shall review public notices to ensure that they conform to the requirements of this article and work to improve publicly accessible information; under said clause, the Commission is not only supposed to be a reactive body, but is supposed to be proactive to make sure that government is achieving its goal of transparency; it is up to the Commission to monitor said sorts of things and come back and report if anything could be improved upon; the City Council deserves to know the Commission is doing right and where improvements can be made, which requires the Commissioners to work Meeting of the Open Government Commission March 30, 2015 8 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2015-03-30.pdf |