According to Florida Sunshine Law, minutes are to be kept of all public meetings. The Council Executive Committee did not keep minutes, according to City Clerk Ericka Burnett.
According to the My Florida Sunshine website:
Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine law provides a right of access to governmental proceedings at both the state and local levels. It applies to any gathering of two or more members of the same board to discuss some matter which will foresee ably come before that board for action.
What are the requirements of the Sunshine law?
The Sunshine law requires that 1) meetings of boards or commissions must be open to the public; 2) reasonable notice of such meetings must be given, and 3) minutes of the meeting must be taken.
Mary Ann Stalcup, the City’s HR director, and the council members who attended the Council Executive Committee meetings appear to have violated the Florida Sunshine Law by not keeping minutes of the meeting.
I will ask the city attorney for his legal opinion on the matter.
The only documentation of the meetings that I could get are these notes on the voting by the committee members on the applicants: Stalcup notes. All I can determine from them is that the committee had no uniform rating system.
….and this is the basis for hiring a council executive that they want to pay $130,000?
Wackadoo!