Item 3: Ratification of Unanimous and Non-Uanimous IGR Actions

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URL: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/sb0001.dir/sb0044.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Holly LeMasurier CS-CMO 1/13/2011 Pri 2 Support Comments: City Council goal: Safe community Current City Manager focus on hate crimes response, significant leadership efforts among Eugene's public agencies This action is aligned with recommendations of our recently implemented City of Eugene Hate Response (stronger sentencing; monitoring and reporting) SB 0047 Relating Clause: Relating to public meetings; creating new provisions; amending ORS 192.640, 192.650, 192.660, 293.714 and 414.395; and declaring an emergency. Title: Requires certain governing bodies of public bodies to make audio, audio-video or digital re- cording of public meetings. Requires written record of meetings and specifies content of written record. Requires recordings and related written records to be available within seven working days of meeting or within one working day of request to review or inspect, whichever is later. Requires Attorney General to develop training materials to educate public employees on public meetings law requirements. Declares emergency, effective on passage. Sponsored by: Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre- session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request of Attorney General John Kroger for Department of Justice) URL: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/sb0001.dir/sb0047.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Jerry Lidz CS-CMO-ATTY 1/17/2011 Pri 3 Oppose Comments: Bill would increase the requirements for making a record of any meeting of "a governing body of a public body." The quoted term includes not only the city council but also most of the City's commissions and Council committees. For less formal meetings, the requirements may be an added burden. We should check with LOC about other cities' positions and consider staying neutral on this one. Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Beth Forrest CS-CMO 1/13/2011 Pri 3 Oppose Comments: Resource issue – one minutes recorder for all City Council, Sustainability Commission, Human Rights Commission, Police Commission, and Budget Committee meetings. Seven days good goal, but shouldn’t be mandated. (Timeframe for audio recording ok.) Regarding Section 8: "... the council shall make the full sound recording and written log of each sound recording of each meeting available to the public prior to the next regularly scheduled meeting of the council." Impractical when meetings are scheduled close together. 18