Complaint filed today against city of Dallas for violating (TOMA)

10/20/2010

Please accept this as a formal complaint:

Under the Texas Open Meetings Act municipalities are required to post meetings and an agenda at least 72 hours prior to the meetings.

From Texas Openings Meeting Act

Sec. 551.043. TIME AND ACCESSIBILITY OF NOTICE; GENERAL RULE. (a) The notice of a meeting of a governmental body must be posted in a place readily accessible to the general public at all times for at least 72 hours before the scheduled time of the meeting, except as provided by Sections 551.044-551.046.

Sec. 551.056. ADDITIONAL POSTING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS, AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS. (a) This section applies only to a governmental body or economic development corporation that maintains an Internet website or for which an Internet website is maintained.

b) In addition to the other place at which notice is required to be posted by this subchapter, the following governmental bodies and economic development corporations must also concurrently post notice of a meeting on the Internet website of the governmental body or economic development corporation:

(1) a municipality;

(c) The following governmental bodies and economic development corporations must also concurrently post the agenda for the meeting on the Internet website of the governmental body or economic development corporation:

(1) a municipality with a population of 48,000 or more;

Governmental body complained of: City of Dallas Secretary's office

Time of place of the alleged violation: 2:20 PM, October 20, 2010

General description of the violation:

City of Dallas violated the Texas Open Meetings Act by not posting the agenda of the Dallas Housing and Acquisition Development Corp. meeting within a 72 hour period. If you go to the city secretary's website, all other posted meetings all have agendas attached; the DHADC link has no agenda.

http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/meetings/DHADC_1021.pdf

http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/boardcal.shtml

We like to enter into evidence Exhibit A; which is a picture(attachment) showing the URL presented by the city secretary's office is no good http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/meetings/DHADC_1021.pdf

Mayor Tom Leppert 214)670-4054 tom.leppert@dallascityhall.com

City Secretary Deborah Watkins 214)670-3738 deborah.watkins@dallascityhall.com

City Attorney Tom Perkins 214)670-3519 tom.perkins@dallascityhall.com

Brandon P. Reed

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