For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MEETING. All regular, special, or called meetings, formal or informal, of a public body for the purposes of briefing, discussion of public business, formation of tentative policy, or the taking of any action.
PUBLIC BODY.
(1) (a) The City Council;
(b) All independent boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, councils, subunits, or any other bodies created by the Constitution of the state, statute, ordinance, or otherwise pursuant to law; and
(c) Advisory committees of the bodies listed above.
(2) PUBLIC BODY does not include subcommittees of such bodies unless a quorum of the public body attends a subcommittee meeting or unless the subcommittees are holding hearings, making policy, or taking formal action on behalf of their parent body.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. 84-1409)