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85 CITY OF SAN MARCOS L""""""7S^'.I""1~'!:!\'~'et:'.'1".'1i'!1!7Z'" '7?:"J"i'.I!'WJ'I:~~~;'[~;~,¡~,",-,,""':~\""'1!~'i."""~'~:-:!"" "': ",-" ~"-~ OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Craddock and Members of the City Council FROM: Lamar W. Hankins City Attorney SUBJECT: Allegation of Illegal Meeting Held Tuesday, February 7, 1984 DATE: February 23, 1984 RE: In a newspaper column in the San Marcos Daily Record on Sunday, February 19, 1984, Bill Coddington wrote that the workshop held on February 7 was not noticed as required by the Open Meetings Act. Specifically, Coddington said that the public was never notified of the time change from 6: 30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., in violation of the Open Meetings Act. From conversations with the City Manager and the City Secretary I have learned that on Monday, February 6, the Superintendent of Schools for SMCISD notified the City Manager that the meeting scheduled on Tuesday night would conflict with a Chamber of Commerce banquet that was to start at 7:00 p.m. The Superintendent said that several school board members wanted to attend the Chamber banquet. The City Manager made arrangements to move the time of the meeting from 6:30 to 5:30 on February 7. The City Manager and the City Secretary caused the notice of the meeting with the time change to be published in the San Marcos Daily Record on February 7 in order to comply with Section 3.09 of the San Marcos City Charter that requires all meetings of the City Council not held at City Hall to be published "in one issue of a newspaper in general circulation in the City of San Marcos. " The City Secretary posted the time change at 1:15 p.m. on February 6, 1984. In addition, she notified members of the media who had previously requested such notifications. At the meeting on February 7, at least three members of the media were present along with Mr. Coddington and others mentioned in his article.