<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good morning,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">One of my action items from our previous meeting was to investigate information about open meeting/sunshine laws, in regards to whether or not we should consider holding our meetings over videoconference instead of IRC.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've compiled what I've looked at in the Google doc below, but what I've gleaned thus far:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Open meeting laws tend to apply directly to governmental agencies, or those who receive funding from government agencies. This doesn't seem to apply to us, but for the sake of research:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Open meeting laws seem to just specify that:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><ul><li>The meetings should be announced to the public before the meeting takes place.</li><li>Meetings should be open to the public, but the public is not necessarily required/allowed to participate. </li><li>Meeting minutes should be publicly available shortly after the meeting.</li><li>Meetings are not required to be recorded, as the minutes are the official "recording" of the meeting.</li></ul><div>None of these things seem to be an impediment to the format that we conduct meetings in. We may want to consider recording meetings for the benefit of the Secretary to create minutes, but once the minutes are approved by the Board it wouldn't be necessary to post a recording of the meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>If there are serious concerns with transparency or remaining in line with any regulations, we can always ask for Dilly's take on it, but my personal opinion is that none of the above items are onerous or really out of line from what we do now. It just requires the Secretary position to fully function as Secretary instead of just relying on IRC bots. That would be my opinion even if I wasn't the Secretary. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the Google doc with the sources that I looked at.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-jJcp7WeLsDkSt8liRP6Bgud1061Fqe_8tBWr1pdMTE/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-jJcp7WeLsDkSt8liRP6Bgud1061Fqe_8tBWr1pdMTE/edit</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tiffany</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="89"><col width="414"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:123pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:75px;height:75px"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/8c2XlzLbIIC6nDoa4yqQ8MzA0npF4WXpUnhhoK_uTqralZtjqVXRwPgmRep3jGYP6q41Sb0ULXqxX-QppYTC8cQyIfBAdqzLBgqvcQwVczkqqiunlj0KIbvy-R3bp-E0mlhF0A4v" width="75" height="75" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></span></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-left:9pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(30,67,155);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Tiffany Little, PINES Services Specialist: Acquisitions</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><hr><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-left:9pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(30,67,155);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Georgia Public Library Service | University System of Georgia</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-left:9pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(30,67,155);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">2872 Woodcock Blvd, Suite 250 l Atlanta, GA 30341</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="lin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