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or those court cases as far as any further interpretation of <br /> • these. I'm a little reluctant right now to go into further <br /> detail on this because I believe the Charter Commission will <br /> retain its own counsel and as much as possible when you have <br /> your own counsel that's who should be giving you the legal <br /> interpretations. I'm just giving this brief rundown so you <br /> can get an idea of how your meetings are supposed to be run <br /> and what the intentions of this is because essentially you <br /> are doing a revision of the charter and the corporation <br /> counsel's office is a creation of the county charter so I <br /> don't want to get into too much about advising you as to what <br /> you will be doing. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: Are you done? <br /> FRED GIANNINI: I'm finished now, you can open with questions. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: Yeah, I got a couple of questions. One, <br /> let's say we chose to appoint a committee to look into hiring <br /> a staff. Are they under the provision of the Sunshine Law? <br /> FRED GIANNINNI: I would say yes their meetings should be <br /> open although there is where you would run into that <br /> situation of personal matters. If the person who is being <br /> hired would ask that it would be closed for that reason I <br /> think you could, say, have the interview in private but the <br /> deliberation on whether or not to hire that person would have <br /> to be in public and the vote would have to be taken in public. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: Any decision would be made by this commission. <br /> FRED GIANNINI: Right. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: I'm talking about an assignment to a small <br /> group of individuals from this commission to do a specific <br /> task and report back. <br /> FRED GIANNINI: I would say that would--that should be done <br /> in public. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: That makes it pretty difficult. <br /> FRED GIANNINI: Well, yeah. <br /> PETE L'ORANGE: I mean from the standpoint that we all live <br /> in different places and committees can meet over the <br /> telephone...Okay, my other question is.. . <br /> ROBERT BETHEA: That rule (inaudible reaction from several <br /> committee members) certainly a committee would have the right <br /> to go out on an information gathering ... <br /> • 8 <br />