pattsi

Richard Brown is accurate--Illinois has an Open Meetings Act, which trumps everything else. Next rules to follow are the county bylaws, and according to the bylaws the rest defaults to RRO. The OMA mandates a roll call to go into a closed session and then a roll call to go back to an open meeting. Thank you again for all of the input.

O.K. I have a further question for clarification. It is my understanding when a public body goes into closed session, there is a roll call vote to this motion. When the public body returns to open session, another roll call is done to establish the meeting quorum and what members of the public body are still present. Why is that not the same procedure for the meeting being called back to order after a recess of any length by RRO. The special meeting after 4 hours was adjourned. The COW agenda was folded into the next county board agenda with no procedural announcement.

Thank you for the thoughtful input.

I can not find the answers to the following questions in the RRO materials. So I need help finding the answers or if you can provide such. 1. If a meeting is recessed for a 10 minute break, by RRO is it necessary to have a roll call to establish what members are still in attendance to declare a quorum when the meeting resumes after the break? A roll call is done when the meeting is called to order originally. 2. If it is announced and agendas made public for a special meeting of a public elected body to start at "X" time on "Y" date followed by a committee of the whole (COW) meeting, according to the agenda to begin 30 minutes after the start time of the special meeting and on the same date, what action needs to be taken about the COW that never occurred because the special meeting ran over 4 hours? The COW meeting was never called to order. Does an anno uncement need to be made publicly that the COW meeting is cancelled? When does this announcement need to be made? Is a motion necessary to move the COW business to a date and time certain or can all of this be left open for a later public announcement? Can the chair just unilaterally make these determinations without approval of the elected body? Thank you for any and all help. Pattsi Petrie