Lakewood Citizens for Integrity in Government, Inc. v. Lakewood Township Committee

SERPENTELLI, A.J.S.C.

This Action In Lieu of Prerogative Writs arises from the Lakewood Township Committee’s decision to transfer the local Uniform Construction Code (UCC) enforcement duties to the County of Ocean pursuant to an Interlocal Services Agreement, N.J.S.A. 40:8A-1 to -11. In the process of making that decision *502the Committee created a novel legal issue involving fundamental tenets of the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 to -21 (OPMA). Can a governing body take formal action at a session denominated as a “conference” meeting when that meeting has been advertised in the same…