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2021 Informal Opinions Op. Fla. Att'y Gen. [1] (2021)

handle is hein.sag/sagfl0111 and id is 1 raw text is: Florida Attorney General Advisory Legal Opinion Number: INFORMAL Date: January 28, 2021 Subject: In-person Quorum-School Board Advisory Meetings Ms. Barbara J. Myrick, General Counsel The School Board of Broward County, Florida 600 S.E. Third Avenue, 11th Floor Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Dear Ms. Myrick, This office has received your inquiry of November 4, 2020 on behalf of the School Board of Broward County, Florida, asking substantially the following question: May a district school board's advisory committee meet remotely through communications media technology and without the requirement of an in-person quorum at a physical meeting location? Because advisory committees are part of the district school board organization,1 unless and until legislatively or judicially determined otherwise, I conclude that the statutory requirement of an in-person quorum at a physical meeting location that applies to the School Board in conducting its business also applies to a school board advisory committee in carrying out its delegated duties.2 Background Facts The School Board's inquiry is prompted by the expiration of Executive Order 20-69,3 in which Governor DeSantis had exercised his authority, during the declared Covid-19 pandemic emergency,4 to suspend any Florida Statutes that require a quorum of a local government body to be physically present in one location for it to conduct official business.5 The same executive order suspended any requirement that a local government body meet at a specific public place, and also authorized local government bodies to utilize communications media technology to conduct public meetings.6 You state that, during the time that Executive Order 20-69 was effective, advisory committees of the Board met remotely through means of communications media technology and without an in-person quorum. The School Board now asks if, in the absence of the effective suspension of any requirement that a quorum be physically present, its advisory committees must have an-person quorum in one physical meeting location to conduct business.

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