Bayview Hunters Point Arts Council v. City
Bayview Hunters Point Arts Council (plaintiff) appeals after the trial court granted the motion for summary judgment of the City and County of San Francisco (defendant or City) in this action arising from the San Francisco Arts Commission’s alleged violation of the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance (S.F. Admin. Code, § 67.1 et seq.), which requires that “[a]ll meetings of any policy body shall be open and public.” (§ 67.5.) On appeal, plaintiff contends there are triable issues of material fact regarding whether the Arts Commission violated section 67.5 when it failed to provide advance notice of and allow public comment at a June 25, 2013 meeting of a review panel at which recipients of an arts grant were purportedly selected because the panel was a “policy body” created “by the initiative of” the Arts Commission, pursuant to section 67.3(d)(4), which means it was subject to section 67.5’s open meeting requirements.
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