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The first Associated Students of DVC meeting this semester had to be cancelled because President Lindsay St. Hill failed to post the agenda 72 hours before the scheduled meeting, as required by law.
One would expect St. Hill and rest of the board to brush up on the Ralph M. Brown Act to prevent further embarrassing mistakes.
But perhaps they just don't care.
The Brown Act guarantees the public's right to fully and freely, attend and participate in meetings held by elected officials.
The law clearly states that any "documents presented to the legislative body during a meeting…" – budgets, proposals, amendments, reports – need to be made readily available to the public without delay.
The ASDVC has failed to do this.
In past years, hard copies of the agendas, minutes from the previous meetings and any other handouts to be discussed were consistently provided at the beginning of meetings.
No longer.
Last semester, this practice stopped, and the ASDVC began putting the agenda on an overhead projector during its meetings.
On one occasion, an Inquirer editor waited 45 minutes after an ASDVC meeting before someone made her a copy of a document discussed that afternoon.
On another occasion, the same editor was told she would have to e-mail St. Hill to obtain a copy of the agenda for the meeting she was there to attend.
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5 comments
When you work 30 hours a week (in addition to taking 18 units doing about 20 hours of ASDVC work) and see that your minutes that you submit on time are being tabled every week, you really start to not care.Anyways, coming from someone on the ASDVC board, yeah I do agree with you - we are a joke.
We have really not been successful, and I can give you a lot of excuses as to why, but they're (again) useless excuses. I would really encourage you guys to voice your opinion to an executive at a meeting or during public forum.
It just needs someone who really wants to advocate and help DVC student bodt. But there are just a few out there.
I understand you are pissed off by their efficiency, but, if the President or the Secretary did not finish and send out agenda and minutes, how can one post it online or publish it?
please try to make some sense before you write anything.