On Monday night, the San Rafael City Council will consider the purchase of property in the Terra Linda neighborhood for a tiny home interim shelter, which one community group maintains was a deal made behind closed doors.
The council is set to respond to a cease-and-desist letter from Citizens for Solutions Not Secrecy, alleging the city conducted secret meetings about the property deal to avoid public participation and oversight.
The letter, written by the group’s lawyer Paul Nicholas Boylan, demands that the city reset the process and consider other city-owned properties for the interim shelter program. It alleges the city acted in violation of the Brown Act, a California law that requires local government agencies to hold their meetings in public…