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A TRUE COPY <br />CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE <br />RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK <br />requirements: (1) all meetings of public boards or commissions must be open to the public; (2) <br />reasonable notice of such meetings must be given; and, (3) minutes of the meetings must be taken and <br />promptly recorded. The mere receipt of public funds by a private entity, standing alone, is insufficient to <br />bring that entity within the ambit of the open government requirements. However, the Government in the <br />Sunshine Law applies to private entities that provide services to governmental agencies and that act on <br />behalf of those agencies in the agencies' performance of their public duties. If a public agency delegates <br />the performance of its public purpose to a private entity, then, to the extent that private entity is <br />performing that public purpose, the Government in the Sunshine Law applies. For example, if a volunteer <br />fire department provides firefighting services to a governmental entity and uses facilities and equipment <br />purchased with public funds, then the Government in the Sunshine Law applies to board of directors for <br />that volunteer fire department. Thus, to the extent that the Government in the Sunshine Law applies to <br />the Recipient based upon the funds provided under this Agreement, the meetings of the Recipient's <br />governing board or the meetings of any subcommittee making recommendations to the governing board <br />may be subject to open government requirements. These meetings shall be publicly noticed, open to the <br />public, and the minutes of all the meetings shall be public records, available to the public in accordance <br />with Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. <br />IN <br />