Form with which the secretary of a corporation notifies all necessary parties of the date, time, and place of a special meeting of the board of directors.
Form with which the secretary of a corporation notifies all necessary parties of the date, time, and place of a special meeting of the board of directors.
Brown Act, California Government Code § 54950. The Brown Act or “Open Meeting Law” is officially known as the Ralph M. Brown Act and is found in the California Government Code § 54950 et seq.
Under the Act, all meetings of local legislative bodies are open and public, and all persons are permitted to attend the meetings. Statutory exceptions authorizing closed sessions are construed narrowly, and the Brown Act “sunshine law” is construed liberally in favor of openness in conducting public business.
In towns with an open town meeting form, all registered voters of the town are eligible to participate in and vote at town meetings. Representative town meeting is used by some larger towns, where voters elect representatives to participate in town meetings, similar to a town council.
Attend a council meeting Most major council decisions are made at meetings that you can attend. Everyone has the right to attend meetings of: the Full Council. the Cabinet.
Members of the public are invited to attend the open sessions of the council meetings, in person or remotely.
The council enacts ordinances, resolutions, and orders necessary for executing the city's affairs, including: Approving or amending annual budgets. Authorizing contracts. Acting as the final appeal body on commissions rulings. Appointing the City Manager or Mayor, City Attorney, City commissioners, and committee members.
“Council” has a narrower definition than either “meeting” or “conference.” A council is a meeting of people who are officially part of a decision-making group for a specific purpose. People on a council are managers and directors, with authority to do specific things.
The purpose of an extraordinary meeting of Full Council is to consider items that may have not been scheduled for an ordinary meeting of Council.
Any meeting that is not a regular meeting of the governing body (i.e., that falls outside the time established for regular meetings and is not an adjournment or continuation of a regular meeting) is considered a “special meeting.” See RCW 42.30.
Extraordinary meeting. a special meeting that happens between regular meetings: He presided over an extraordinary meeting of the country's leading clergy. He said he would have to call an extraordinary meeting of the Council of the European Union.