Posted by JDEM on March 21, 2018 at 05:30:58 from (174.230.4.79):
This is about the property-tax Board of Review meeting. The one where the members refused to identify themselves to me and then called the sheriff on me to have me removed because I took more then 5 minutes of their time. Seems to me they violated the law. Town is required to keep minutes showing which board members were there and have those minutes available to the public. Violation of such is a misdemeanor.
Lots of legal mumbo-jumbo.
From the state: "Michigan Board of Review must be conducted as an open public meeting as provided in Act 267, P.A. 1976, Open Meetings Act."
Township Supervisor shall be the Secretary of the Board of Review and keep a record of proceedings and changes made to the roll and file the record with the Township or City Clerk. If there are multiple Boards conducting hearings or if the Supervisor is absent, the Board must elect a Secretary. MCL 211.33. (Appendix)
The State Tax Commission requires that all Boards of Review maintain appropriate documentation of their decisions including: minutes, a copy of the form 4035 and a copy of the form 4035a whenever the Board of Review makes a change that causes the Taxable Value to change. The 4035 must include a detailed reason why the Board made their determination.
Minutes must include: a) Date, time and place of meetings. b) Members present and members absent and notation of any correspondence received.
Who keeps the minutes and documentation? Minutes and documentation should be filed with the Clerk of the local unit of government.
Michigan's Freedom of Information Act 2015
The Michigan Freedom of Information Act gives the public the right to request to inspect and receive copies of public records, and to subscribe to regular issuances of public records. Recent amendments to the FOIA took effect July 1, 2015.
15.263 Meetings, decisions, and deliberations of public body; requirements; attending or addressing meeting of public body; tape-recording, videotaping, broadcasting, and telecasting proceedings; rules and regulations; exclusion from meeting; exemptions. Sec. 3. (1) All meetings of a public body shall be open to the public and shall be held in a place available to the general public. All persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting except as otherwise provided in this act. The right of a person to attend a meeting of a public body includes the right to tape-record, to videotape, to broadcast live on radio, and to telecast live on television the proceedings of a public body at a public meeting. The exercise of this right shall not be dependent upon the prior approval of the public body. However, a public body may establish reasonable rules and regulations in order to minimize the possibility of disrupting the meeting. (2) All decisions of a public body shall be made at a meeting open to the public. (3) All deliberations of a public body constituting a quorum of its members shall take place at a meeting open to the public except as provided in this section and sections 7 and 8. (4) A person shall not be required as a condition of attendance at a meeting of a public body to register or otherwise provide his or her name or other information or otherwise to fulfill a condition precedent to attendance. (5) A person shall be permitted to address a meeting of a public body under rules established and recorded by the public body. The legislature or a house of the legislature may provide by rule that the right to address may be limited to prescribed times at hearings and committee meetings only. (6) A person shall not be excluded from a meeting otherwise open to the public except for a breach of the peace actually committed at the meeting
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