Glendale interim City Attorney Nick DiPiazza said there was no intent to circumvent the law, because the private get-togethers were not actual meetings.
“There was no meeting conducted. If there were a meeting, there would have to be an agenda, there would have to be a quorum. And there was no meeting,” he said.
DiPiazza believes that the gatherings scheduled four days in advance were merely occasions for polite introductions, he said.
“When you speak of a meeting, it sounds like something official. It sounds like something is agendized. It sounds like something which is intended for the conduct of business, and I don’t think that’s what was intended here,” DiPiazza said.
If these were just "polite introductions" why not do them all at once? #meetingnotameeting
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