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Opinion Letter No. 07-02
February 2, 2007
Sufficiency of Agenda Re: Motions to Reconsider
Several persons asked whether broad language included
in all of the Hawaii County Council's agendas provided sufficient
notice under the Sunshine Law to allow the Council to consider and
decide motions to reconsider final action taken on two legislative
bills.
OIP concluded that the language, which generally
noticed the possibility of reconsideration motions, did not provide
sufficient notice to allow the Council's substantive discussion, deliberation
and decision on the motions to reconsider. OIP found that the Sunshine
Law required the Council to specifically list the bills subject to
the motions to reconsider.
OIP noted that the language did provide sufficient
notice to allow the motions to be brought for the purpose of placing
them on an agenda for a future meeting for which they could be properly
noticed.
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