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LA City Officials must have had Richard Nixon’s White House secretary Rose Mary Woods taping their March 2nd meeting about condoms to which none of the porn industry was apparently invited.

Because how else can you abide by a feeble explanation that a tape of that meeting is now missing because of a glitch in the operation of the recorder?

In 1973 Woods insisted that 18 ½ minutes went missing in a private oval office discussion about Watergate because she had hit the erase button in a physically contorted manner that the press, sensing a tall tale, dubbed it “The Rosemary Stretch” [pictured].

The March 2nd meeting involved The Adult Film Industry Working Group, comprised of officials from the LAPD,Cal/OSHA and the city attorney’s office.

Attorney Michael Fattorosi pointed out several weeks ago that the meeting was held behind closed doors in possible violation of California’s Brown Act, which guarantees the public’s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies.

“As I conducted my research it became apparent that the City Council did not post the agenda on purpose,” Fattorosi told XBIZ at the time.

Fattorosi then contacted the City Attorney’s Office requesting a copy of the agenda, except they didn’t provide him with one.

In fact, Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the City Attorney’s office, confirmed that the public could not attend the March 2 meeting and said he could not provide any agendas, transcript and audio or videotapes of it.

Mateljan also said that the law currently is not being enforced until City Council decides on final language that will be introduced May 8. Mateljan said he couldn’t state one way or another whether the “working group” violated the Brown Act.

Contrary to what Mateljan told XBiz, a more implausible story’s now being offered. City officials are saying that the March 2 meeting was, in fact, legally publicized and that the public could have attended it. Except The Free Speech Coalition, which should have been there, is saying it had no knowledge of the meeting.

Also c ontrary to what its spokesman first told XBiz, the City Attorney’s office is now saying that it complied with rules alerting the general public 72 hours prior to the meeting, saying that an agenda was “physically posted on the first floor of City Hall South.”

But, according to Los Angeles city analyst Eva Bitar, the minutes of the March 2 meeting won’t be available to the public until approved at the next — and last — discussion within the group.

However Bitar is also claiming that an audio tape recording of the meeting doesn’t exist.

“We experienced a glitch with the operation of the recorder and consequently the tape is blank,” Bitar doing her best Rosemary Woods impersonation told XBiz.

Fattorosi had originally requested the agenda, minutes and any recordings from the meeting in a series of letters sent to various City Council members, the City Attorney’s office and Bitar directly in his efforts to research the law for an article he is authoring for XBIZ.

The meeting was attended by 11 officials from a number of city and county agencies, according to a sign-in sheet obtained by Fattorosi and XBIZ.

According to the agenda, City fire, police and its personnel departments were slated to offer discussion.

So were Film LA, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Cal/OSHA and Cal/OSHA’s Standards Board.

XBiz reports that Fattorosi sent an email to all 11 working group attendees requesting an interview. To date, not a single request for interview has been granted.

“I find it rather difficult to believe that the city had a recorder malfunction and cannot produce the audio tape from the March 2 meeting,” Fattorosi told XBIZ.

“I also find it interesting that none of the attendees want to speak directly about what was discussed at the meeting. It is as though they are completely stone walling the industry.”

Among those in attendance at the meeting were Paul Audley of Film LA which processes permits. Vice president, Todd Lindgren, and Donna Washington, the group’s vice president of permit operations were also at the meeting.
Commanding officer Mike Williams and officer Manuel Romeral represented the LAPD.

Also at the meeting were Kimberly Miera, counsel from the City Attorney’s office; William Parker, an inspector for the Los Angeles City Fire Department; Los Angeles County Assistant Counsel Andrea Ross; Arn Ross of the Los Angeles City Personnel Department; Mario J. Perez, director of the Office of AIDS Programs and Policy for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Kian Kaeni, senior legislative deputy for Councilman Paul Koretz’s office who was there to collect information for Koretz.

The next and final meeting of the Adult Film Industry Working Group hasn’t yet been announced, but it is likely it would take place by the end of April, Bitar said.

“The meeting is open to the public and the notice will be posted on the bulletin board on the 2nd floor of City Hall East 72 hours prior to the meeting,” Bitar said.

“As a further courtesy, I will also post it on the city’s calendar.”