Glendale Mayor Frank Quintero and the Brown Act

Glendale Mayor Frank Quintero and the Brown Act:

REVISED INTRODUCTION: Brown Act Section 54954.3(a) describes the MINUMUM STANDARDS required of a legislative body for allowing the public to address it. The body can allow the public to address it either BEFORE OR DURING the agenda item presentations. It is NOT NECESSARY to allow the public to address it BOTH before AND during the presentations.

Historically it has been the policy of previous Glendale City Councils to SELF-IMPOSE GREATER REGULATIONS ON ITSELF in accordance with Brown Act Section 54953.7, allowing the public to address agenda items both BEFORE AND DURING agenda items.

Mayor Quintero decided to break with tradition and adopt the MINIMUM STANDARD of only allowing the public to address the council BEFORE the presentations. By their silence Council Members John Drayman, Laura Friedman, Ara Najarian and Dave Weaver went along with Mayor Frank Quintero.

Those of us who do not like it will simply have to live with it until Mayor Quintero changes the rule back to what it was in the past, or wait until the Brown Act is amended, which is unlikely.

Video of Glendale Mayor Frank Quintero's New Rules for Addressing the City Council

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