NEWPORT — School Committee candidate Robert T. Oliveira has filed an Open Meetings Law complaint over a committee meeting held last week.

In announcing the action yesterday, Oliveira provided the media with a copy of the complaint that he said he sent to Attorney General Patrick Lynch. He asserted that the agenda for last Thursday’s meeting did not properly serve notice of the actions the committee took.

Oliveira said the agenda — under the section “personnel actions” — cited “recalls,” but did not include enough specific information to inform citizens that the discussion would be about a high school guidance counselor.

The committee, he said, also voted without appropriate notice to direct the schools superintendent to take legal action to recoup any money the state owes for the costs of a guidance counselor at the Newport Area Career and Technical Center.

The committee, he asserts, also voted inappropriately to spend money on a regionalization study, an action that was not on the agenda.

“I am asking the attorney general’s office, under the power provided by statute, hold all actions at this meeting null and void,” he wrote in his letter.

Oliveira ran unsuccessfully for City Council in 2006 and for School Committee in 2004.

In an announcement yesterday, he stated that the School Committee “is digging a hole and they need to be stopped. Therefore, this week he is filing Open Meetings Law complaints, and a complaint to the state auditor regarding the conduct of the last meeting. If successful in garnering an investigation, he will seek a temporary restraining order maintaining that the guidance counselor’s position not be terminated while the investigation is ongoing.”

— RICHARD SALIT