The Fresno Council of Governments (FresnoCOG) has cancelled its next Measure C Renewal Steering Committee meeting and has published an agenda for the secretive Measure C Renewal Facilitation Team for the first time.

The move comes one week after former Steering Committee member Brooke Ashjian filed a complaint with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office Public Integrity Unit claiming FresnoCOG is violating California’s open meeting law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, by holding the Facilitation Team meetings in secret.

The backstory: Fresno County Supervisor and Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA) Chairman Buddy Mendes brought the Facilitation Team to light in July when he was the first to publicly raise concerns that the committee could be violating the Brown Act. • Mendes id

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