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Sacramento does not like the public to know the truth.
"Proposition 59, passed overwhelmingly in 2004, gives the public a constitutional right to access public meetings and documents, essentially setting many of the act's requirements in stone, reimbursement or not.
That wasn't enough for open government advocates, who, fearing that local governments would grow lax in their disclosure without reimbursement, spoke out forcefully against cutting it.
"The thing is, the state should not even have to reimburse local bodies for their agenda-posting costs. It's by no means an expensive thing to do, and it benefits the public in each local jurisdiction," the Los Angeles Daily News wrote in an editorial last June. "Given the number of true unfunded mandates that the Legislature imposes on local governments, to the tune of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in actual costs, this one's nothing."
During the 2008-09 budget year, the state paid about $16.4 million to local governments for Brown Act reimbursements, plus a few million more to school districts and community colleges."
Time for the people to act.
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"Proposition 59, passed overwhelmingly in 2004, gives the public a constitutional right to access public meetings and documents, essentially setting many of the act's requirements in stone, reimbursement or not.
That wasn't enough for open government advocates, who, fearing that local governments would grow lax in their disclosure without reimbursement, spoke out forcefully against cutting it.
"The thing is, the state should not even have to reimburse local bodies for their agenda-posting costs. It's by no means an expensive thing to do, and it benefits the public in each local jurisdiction," the Los Angeles Daily News wrote in an editorial last June. "Given the number of true unfunded mandates that the Legislature imposes on local governments, to the tune of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in actual costs, this one's nothing."
During the 2008-09 budget year, the state paid about $16.4 million to local governments for Brown Act reimbursements, plus a few million more to school districts and community colleges."
Time for the people to act.
More...