Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A) Authority
This rule is adopted in compliance with, and under the
authority of, division (F) of section
121.22
of the Revised Code.
(B) Any
person may determine the time and place of all regularly scheduled meetings and
the time, place, and purpose of all special meetings by:
(1) Writing to the following address: "Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission, c/o Ohio
Department of Higher Education,
25 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215."
(2) Calling the following telephone number
during normal business hours: (614) 466-6000.
(3)
Consulting the
Ohio higher educational facility commission website located at
https://ohefc.ohiohighered.org/.
(C)
Any representative of the news media may obtain notice of all special meetings
by requesting in writing that such notice be provided.
A request for such notification shall be addressed to: "Vice
Chair, Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission, c/o Ohio
Department of Higher Education,
25 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215"
or by way of electronic mail message atcommunications@highered.ohio.gov.
(1) The request
shall provide the name of the individual media representative to be contacted,
his or her mailing address and a maximum of two
telephone numbers and an electronic mail address
where he or she can be reached. The
vice chair shall maintain a list of all
representatives of the news media who have requested notice of special meetings
pursuant to paragraph (C) of this rule.
(2) In the event of a special meeting not of
an emergency nature, the vice chair of the Ohio higher
educational
facility commission shall notify all media
representatives on the list of such meeting by doing at least one of the
following:
(a) Sending written notice, which
must be mailed by way of ordinary mail or electronic
mail message no later than four calendar days prior to the day of the
special meeting;
(b) Notifying such
representatives by telephone no later than twenty-four hours prior to the
special meeting; such telephone notice shall be complete if a message has been
left for the representative, or if, after reasonable effort, the vice
chair
has been unable to provide such telephone notice;
(c) Informing such representative personally
no later than twenty-four hours prior to the special meeting.
(3) In the event of a special
meeting of an emergency nature, the vice chair shall
notify all media representatives on the list of such meeting by providing
either the notice described in paragraph (C) (2)(b) of this
rule or the
notice described in paragraph (C) (2)(c) of this rule. In such event,
however, the notice need not be given twenty-four hours prior to the meeting,
but shall be given as soon as possible.
(4) In giving the notices required by
paragraph (C) of this rule, the vice chair may
rely on assistance provided by any member of the staff of the Ohio
department of higher education and any such notice is
complete if given by such member in the manner provided in paragraph
(C) of
this rule.
(D)
The vice chair shall maintain a list of all persons who
have requested, in writing, notice of all meetings of the Ohio higher
educational facility commission at which specific subject matters designated by
such persons are scheduled to be discussed. Any person may have his or her name
placed on such list. The vice chair shall, no later than seven days prior to
each meeting, send by first class mail an agenda of the meeting to such
persons.
(E)
This rule may be amended at any time by majority vote
of the entire membership of the Ohio higher educational facility
commission.
