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I IDA 1W <br />BEST BEST & KRIEGER �4 <br />ATTORNEYS AT LAW <br />OLD SCHOOL PROBLEMS <br />A. Contacts with staff <br />The goal of the Brown Act is to have local government bodies deliberate and <br />make decisions in an open and public meeting. If a staff member met individually with <br />each Brown Act body member and served as an intermediary to forge consensus <br />among the members, what is sometimes termed a "wheel meeting" because the staff <br />member serves as the hub communicating with individual members, the spokes, the <br />public would be deprived of the opportunity to observe and participate in the decision <br />making process. On the flip side, if Brown Act body members showed up to conduct <br />business without the benefit of a staff report or an opportunity to have new concepts or <br />history explained, the meeting may become inefficient and the members would be <br />unprepared to conduct the People's business. Neither of these two scenarios serves the <br />public well. <br />The Brown Act recognizes the value of staff briefings, but imposes limits to <br />protect its goals. (Gov. Code § 54952.2(b)(2).) It allows staff members to answer <br />questions and provide information to Brown Act body members, but prohibits staff from <br />communicating the positions of the Brown Act body members to other members of that <br />same body: <br />[The Brown Act provides that the prohibition on serial <br />meetings] shall not be construed as preventing an employee <br />or official of a local agency, from engaging in separate <br />conversations or communications outside of a meeting <br />authorized by this chapter with members of a legislative <br />body in order to answer questions or provide information <br />regarding a matter that is within the subject matter <br />jurisdiction of the local agency, if that person does not <br />93939.0020E\3 t 180968.1 -3- <br />This product provided under the Public Policy & Ethics Group Program <br />
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