One-day notice. Nice, eh? Did they decide on April 28th to hold this meeting on May 11th? They must have, since that is the only time the Committee has met.
From Richland Two:
RICHLAND TWO BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO HAVE SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE WHOLE ON SAFETY AND SECURITY ON MAY 11, 2022
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Richland School District Two Board of Trustees will hold a Special Committee Meeting of the Whole on Safety and Security on Wednesday, May 11, at 5:30 p.m.
Click the link below to view the agenda for the meeting:
http://go.boarddocs.com/sc/rsd2/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CE5M2J57F8AB
The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Boardroom at R2i2 located at 763 Fashion Drive, Columbia, 29229. Please note this meeting will not be streamed live or recorded.
At the Special Committee Meeting, visitors will need to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
From a technical stand-point, this looks like a Board of Trustees meeting, since the Board is to hold the meeting. Because of that, it should be live-streamed and it should be subject to all the other requirements of a public body. If it's a Board meeting, then a quorum needs to be there.
If it is "only" a Committee meeting, then the Committee should announce it. No action can be taken that binds the Board. If it is a Committee meeting, there is no quorum requirement.
This is why the Board of Trustees should not be announcing this meeting.
The above is how the first meetng of the Committee should have been announced - open to the public. Planning the structure of a Committee does not qualify as an exception to Open Meetings laws. The April 28th special-called meeting contained an executive session that very likely was illegal under South Carolina law.
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