Watch out for the Alameda Sunshine Task Force - meeting again tonight at the Alameda Library.
Looks like the Task Force zeroed in on the Brown Act, which was originally enacted to cease informal, undisclosed meetings held by local elected officials, particularly city councils and county boards. To avoid public backlash, local governing bodies would hide secret meetings behind closed doors.
See below for tonight's agenda, but first I'd like to address item 3D and add a next step for the task force:
Clarify how and when the City staff is paid. Also, require staff to disclose any E-mail correspondence and meeting notes with Alameda Point redevelopment partners and interested parties. This should be limited to City Council and Staff, any city advisory council, the Navy and SunCal, seeing as how SunCal is still under their Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA). Hopefully the staff isn't violating Brown Act and negotiating future terms, without public input, behind closed doors.
Sunshine Task Force Agenda Items - April 27, 2010
3-A. Speaker: Thomas Peele, Investigative Reporter, Bay Area News Group
3-B. Discussion of April 20, 2010 Presentation to the City Council
3-C. Determine Next Steps for Task Force
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There's always been talk about transparency in government. I'm skeptical about the city delivering on this promise, but I hope they surprise me and deliver.
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