Opinion No. (2000)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General ANTHONY S. DA VIGO Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE GROVER TRASK, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, has requested an opinion on the following question: Where a city council of a city with less than 200,000 in population has declared itself to be the city's redevelopment agency and the city's housing authority and conducts a unified meeting as a city council, redevelopment agency, and housing authority, may the council members receive the remuneration provided by law for members of a redevelopment agency and for commissioners of a housing authority if no business within the jurisdiction of the redevelopment agency or housing authority is conducted during the unified meeting? CONCLUSION Where a city council of a city with less than 200,000 in population has declared itself to be the city's redevelopment agency and the city's housing authority and conducts a unified meeting as a city council, redevelopment agency, and housing authority, the council members may not receive the remuneration provided by law for members of a redevelopment agency or for commissioners of a housing authority if no business within the jurisdiction of the redevelopment…