Caucuses
Cal Cities promotes membership in one of its five diversity caucuses, which provides city officials with common interests, characteristics, issues, and identity as another way to connect with each other. The African American, Asian Pacific Islander, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer, Latino, and Women's Caucuses reflect the diversity of California's 482 cities, and membership is open to all Cal Cities' members, as is participation in all caucus meetings and events.
Explore each of the caucus profiles, goals, activities, and events and see if there is a diversity caucus for you.
Contact Staff
Jennifer Whiting
Deputy Executive Director
(916) 658-8249
jwhiting@calcities.org
Essential Hour: Your First Public Meeting – Brown Act Basics
This event occurred on August 13, 2021. See below for instructions on how to purchase a recording of the event.
Presented by Cal Cities’ City Attorneys Department Attorney Development and Succession and Brown Act Committee
Overseeing your first public meeting as a municipal attorney can be a daunting experience. You might have read the Brown Act in preparation, but providing legal guidance in real time when you are in front of the public and media requires alertness to potential pitfalls, political astuteness, and confidence.
Join
us for a presentation during which we will discuss Brown Act basics, offer tips
and suggestions through hypotheticals, and provide some suggested best
practices. This is a joint effort of the Brown Act Committee and the
Attorney Development and Succession Committee (Substantive Law Subcommittee) of
the City Attorneys Department.
The League of California Cities is a State Bar of California minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) approved provider. Cal Cities certified that this webinar meets the standards for participatory MCLE credit for registered attendees in the amount of 1 hour. Please note that participatory MCLE credit is only available to those who are registered to participate in the “live” webinar and Cal Cities is unable to provide credit to those who choose to view the webinar recording.
Presenters:
- Tracy Noonan, City Attorney, City of Thousand Oaks
- Noel Doran, Assistant City Attorney, City of Palmdale
- Thomas Jex, Burke Williams and Sorensen, LLP
- Cara Silver, Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel
If you wish to view the recorded event, please contact Megan Dunn. Cal Cities members will be charged $25 to view the recording. Non-member cities and all others will be charged $150.
For questions, please contact Megan Dunn.