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• City of Riverside, City Council 3900 Main St. Riverside, CA 92522 RE: Code of Ethics and Conduct Adjudicating Body — cure and correct demand To Whom It May Concern, September 22, 2014 Jason Hunter 1325 Century Ave. Riverside, CA 92506 This letter is to call your attention to what I believe was a substantial violation of a central provision of the Ralph M. Brown Act, one which may jeopardize the finality of the action taken by the Code of Ethics and Conduct Adjudicating Body. The nature of the violation is as follows: in its meeting of August 22, 2014, the Adjudicating Body took action finding no violations of the City's Code of Ethics and Conduct regarding a complaint towards the actions of Mr. Justin Scott- Coe. The action taken was not in compliance with the Brown Act because there was no adequate notice containing the agenda for this meeting posted on the city's "Meetings Calendar" website. I notified the City Clerk in writing last December of a similar violation as part of a previous ethics complaint hearing. I followed up on that written complaint by orally advising the City Clerk of the same at a subsequent Governmental Affair Committee meeting. I notified the City Clerk of this particular violation in the days preceding the August 22nd hearing. I then proceeded to inform the Adjudicating Body of this violation at the hearing. Adjudicating Body member, Robin Jackson, is on the record as being surprised by not being able to find notice of the hearing on the city's website, as is one member of the public. As you are aware, Section 54954.2(a)(1) of the Brown Act provides that at least 72 hours before a regular meeting, the legislative body of the local agency, or its designee, shall post an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at the meeting, including items to be discussed in closed session. A brief general description of an item generally need not exceed 20 words. The agenda shall specify the time and location of the regular meeting and shall be posted in a location that is freely accessible to members of the public and on the local agency's Internet Web site, if the local agency has one. Pursuant to that provision (GC 54960.1), 1 demand that the Adjudicating Body of the city of Riverside cure and correct the illegally taken action as follows: formal and explicit withdrawal from any determination made on August 22, 2014, regarding the complaint of Code of Ethics and Conduct violations by Mr. Justin Scott-Coe; coupled with a disclosure at a future Adjudicating Body meeting as to why the panel believed it had the authority to proceed with the hearing