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committees whose only function it is to make recommendations

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to the parent organization. Proceedings is really a term

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of art which refers to the court, and it only refers to

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the formal proceedings, that is, the proceedings in court;

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it does not go to the deliberative process of the court.

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Essentially it is almost a term of limitation. But the

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intent is to provide this area of public information and to

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broaden it, but because there is some concern about

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deliberations of the court, this word "proceedings" refers

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to the formal aspects of it, not to the deliberative

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process.

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"Meetings" has been interpreted and, despite

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very broad statutory language, the courts have been quite

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restrictive. A meeting was defined to include only

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gatherings where members sit as a joint body at an

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authorized meeting duly assembled. This is based on a

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California case, Adler versus the City Council.

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Again, I would hope that the court in construing

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this provision, if they would construe it as broadly as

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possible, but I must admit that the courts with the history

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of secrecy have generally taken a very restrictive view of