Agenda Date: 01/07/2024
Subject:
Title
Resolution 01-2025: Approving designation of where notices of public meetings are posted and identifying the newspaper where notices and other information required to be published will be printed
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Colleen L. Norton, City Clerk
Presentations:
N/A
PURPOSE:
Does city council support designating public meeting posting locations on the city website and at the Littleton Center, Bemis Library, and the Municipal Courthouse and identifying the Littleton Independent as the newspaper where notices and other information will be printed for 2025?
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
The Littleton City Code, section 1-3-2, governs how legal notices and other information are disseminated to the public. "For the purposes of the charter and this code, except where publication in a newspaper is specifically required by the charter, an ordinance or state statute, the terms "publication," "publish" or "published" shall mean a minimum of two (2) of the following three (3) methods: a) posting on the city's website; b) physical posting at the Littleton Center, Bemis Public Library and the Littleton Municipal Courthouse; or c) publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city." The Littleton Independent is a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Littleton.
All legal notices are posted on the city website and at the Municipal Courthouse, Littleton Center, and Bemis Library. The newspaper is used when specifically required by code.
BACKGROUND:
The Colorado Open Meetings Law, C.R.S. ? 24-6-401, et seq., requires that any meeting at which a majority or a quorum of any public body is in attendance or expected to be in attendance, or at which any formal action on policies, positions, resolutions, rules or regulations occurs, "be held only after full and timely notice to the public." Meetings include those held by "any board, committee...
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