under the ralph m. brown act, the public must be given the opportunity to, before or during a legislative body's consideration of an item, so public, and may take place prior to the nomination process, after nominations have been made and clothes, or both. the proposed process meets the requirement, suggesting public comment occur at the beginning, but the board can choose to open public comment at any time during the process or to shift public comment from prior to the nomination process to after the nominations have been made and close. the third action is illustrated in section c. it is to receive and consider nominations. since the board rules do not address the nomination of a successor meier, the proposed process describes a method of making nominations adhering to making nominations based on robert's rules of order. the main difference from the board president process is that a board member may not nominate him or herself and once nominated may not participate in the process. both the campaign and gove