From Council Member Silbiger San Bernardino County Proposed Sunshine Ordinance. March 31 2010 Mark Scott City Manager Culver City Please place this discussion item on the City Council agenda for Monday April 5 2010. This item is based on the Culver City policy allowing one Council member to have agendized an item for the next Council meeting. This proposal is named the Culver City Open Government Sunshine Law. It is modeled after the ordinance from San Jose California and the proposal submitted by Supervisor Neil Derry to the San Bernardino California Board of Supervisors. Attached is the 35 page pending ordinance from the County of San Bernardino California. Sincerely CalAware Today: Sunshine for a Corruption Troubled County? Page 2 of 37 San Bernardino County Sunshine Ordinance CHAPTER 1.1: GENERAL 1.1.1 Findings and Purpose. 1.1.2. Construction. 1.1.3 Definitions. 1.1.4 Citation. SEC. 1.1.1 FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. The Board of Supervisors and the People of the County of San Bernardino find and declare: (a) Elected officials councils commissions boards committees and other agencies of the County exist to serve the public and to conduct the people's business. The people do not cede to these entities the right to decide what the people should know about the operations of local government. (b) In order to ensure that the public interest is served by the decisions and actions of the County government the government's conduct of the people's business must be subject to ongoing public scrutiny. (c) Members of the public must be provided with a meaningful opportunity to participate in the decisions that affect them and to understand how and why those decisions are made. (d) In order to ensure public participation in and scrutiny of the decisions and conduct of the County government records and information pertaining to the conduct of the people's business must be readily available to the public unless specifically exempt from disclosure under this Title. (e) Members of the...
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