California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez: Allow voters to add open meeting protections to the State Constitution.” I hope we can collect hundreds if not thousands of signatures as soon as possible, and I could really use your help.

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Dear Friends,
The Brown Act is the state’s open meeting law that requires local governments to prepare and post agendas for public meetings and disclose decisions made in closed meetings. The state will reimburse the entities required to comply with the Brown Act for the costs associated with these requirements because they are considered to be a state mandate.
When the state budget was adopted, the money to reimburse those costs was cut from the budget. Since the requirement to post meeting agendas is considered a mandate, and the mandate was suspended, so was the requirement to continue posting public meeting agendas.
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