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January/February 2006,MICHIGANMUNICIPALREVIEW12 Don t get burned by michigan s open Meetings Act!Local officials need to know when a meeting is a meetingby Don M. Schmidt with sidebar excerpted from the OMAL ocal officials who don t have asolid understanding of the OpenMeetings Act can get into troublein a hurry. A good way to learn thepractical application of the OpenMeetings Act (OMA) is to studyreal-life situations that haveresulted in court decisions. How-ever, when applying the lessonslearned from this type of analysis,local officials must use a minor change in the facts ineach situation could lead to a dif-ferent conclusion by a it a meeting if ..The mayor contacts each council-member to find out his or her posi-tion on the city manager, before themanager s status is reviewed at aregularly scheduled council meeting ?A city council and city managerwere at odds. Some of the councilmembers wanted to terminate thecity manager.
Don’t get burned by Michigan’s Open Meetings Act! Local officials need to know when a meeting is a meeting by Don M. Schmidt with sidebar excerpted from the OMA Local officials who don’t have a solid understanding of the Open Meetings Act can get into trouble in a hurry. A good way to learn the
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