I'll add another concern. Increasingly, the City Managers and County Manager have been meeting one-on-one with individual members of their elected body. They just "run ideas by them" they say. What they are really doing is holding serial meetings, trying to find what proposal will get the needed votes. The Open Public Meetings Act specifically prohibits these type of serial meetings.
If the City Manager wants to "run an idea" by the City Council, the place to do that is in open session, with the public in attendance and able to watch remotely.
I was an opponent of the five-member commissions for the Port and the County, and co-authored the voter's pamphlet statements against them. Jason Long is correct in his analysis.
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