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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2015-10-14 | 1 | MINUTES OF THE OPEN GOVERNMENT COMMISSION MEETING WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2015 - - 7:00 P.M. Chair Aguilar convened the meeting at 7:02 p.m. ROLL CALL - Present: Commissioners Bonta, Dieter, Foreman, Tuazon, and Chair Aguilar - 5. Absent: None. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, NON-AGENDA None. AGENDA ITEMS 3-A. Minutes of the March 30, 2015 Meeting Commissioner Bonta stated she would pass on a few typos to the City Clerk. Commissioner Dieter moved approval of the minutes as corrected. Vice Chair Foreman seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous voice vote - 5. 3-B. Hearing of Sunshine Ordinance Complaints filed September 15, 2015 The Assistant City Attorney gave a brief presentation. John Klein stated he is embarrassed about needing to be present and thought about withdrawing the complaint because it seems trivial; however, it is not trivial; through the whole process, which has been skeletal, the response has not been as it should be; he submitted five individual records requests directly to the Mayor and each Councilmember because that is the way he wanted to do it; if the City Attorney wanted to consolidate the response, it would have been fine; however, the City Attorney's response on the 11th does not even say who he is responding for; the City Clerk is the custodian of records; that he did not know why he was getting an email from the City Attorney; he thought maybe it is on behalf of the Mayor, but did not know; while the response was timely, it did not include the information the rule requires, which is: when the documents will be ready, how the documents will be delivered and by whom; said information is not in the City Attorney's September 11th response; he did not know who the Attorney was responding for and the required information was not included in the three day response; the Attorney said he needed clarification; the City Attorney inquired if they could talk Wednesday; when they did talk Wednesday, the clarification the Assistant City Attorney needed was the timeframe of the requested documents; questioned why the City Attorney did not simply ask in the original email; by that time, the response was getting really late and he was feeling that the City's response was Meeting of the Open Government Commission October 14, 2016 1 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2015-10-14.pdf |