How an obscure Alameda Corridor rail agency avoided public accountability laws for years
[www.dailynews.com]

What we have here is massive overreaction. Yes, local agency committees that can make some kind of decision do have to follow the conflict of interest rules. So was the committee set up under ACTA? If it was then ACTA presumably has an agency code and could simply have the committee members file statements with it. If *ACTA!* doesn't have a code, there's a bigger problem that some lawyers need to sit down and figure out how to deal with. Anyway, the reaction described in the article is an overreaction that will just make it more complicated for everybody to do the job. And I'm sure the RR people involved would prefer not to do all the paperwork (it's not rocket science and doesn't even need a lawyer if your finances are fairly simple; I had to do it for years in previous jobs, including sometimes filing with multiple agencies) but That Is The Law in the Great State of Kalifornia.