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Sargent notes that FOI “requires a public vote, when back in public session, on the matter voted on in closed session. To answer your specific question, mere informal nods of the head to indicate acquiescence in the chairman’s announcement do not conform to the Act’s requirements. A formal recorded vote is manadatory," she wrote Baumgardner.
Official actions of improperly appointed school board members are invalid once notification is received of the defective appointment Sargent cites several sections of the code as to what constitutes notice. The first states that “Notice, generally, is any knowledge, however acquired, which is sufficient to put a party on inquiry.*’ She also cites case law and a prior opinion of the Attorney General’s office that held legal action through a quo warranto proceeding is the only way to remove an improperly appointed officer.
Sargent notes that any interested party can file a petition for quo wananto sod mandamus as the first step towards removing an individual appointed improperly. Law “specifically
permits your office to file,” she wrote in the letter to Baumgardner Indicating But the Commonwealth Attorney can initiate action to rectify the FOI violation.
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