§1-B-12 | STAFF MEMBER OR PUBLIC OFFICIAL ALSO SERVING AS MEMBER OF PUBLIC BOARD
However, the Sunshine Law is applicable only to discussions of matters which may foreseeably come before the board. For example, the Sunshine Law would not apply to meetings between the mayor and city commissioners where a mayor performs the duties of city manager and the city commissioners individually serve as the head of a city department when the meeting is held solely by these officers in their capacity as department heads for the purpose of coordinating administrative and operational matters between executive departments of city government for which no formal action by the governing body is required or contemplated. Those matters which normally come before, or should come before, the city commission for discussion or action, however, must not be discussed at such meetings. AGO 81-88. Accord AGOs 83-70 and 75-210 (mayor may discuss matters with individual city council member which concern his or her administrative functions and would not come before the council for consideration and further action).
Similarly, the Sunshine Law would not apply to a school faculty meeting simply because two or more members of school advisory council who are also faculty members attend the faculty meeting as long as council members refrain from discussing matters that may come before the council for consideration. Inf. Op. to Hughes, February 17, 1995; and Inf. Op. to Boyd, March 14, 1994. (Florida Office of the Attorney General // © )
