TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
John Jalili, Interim City Manager
FROM:
Senior Management Analyst, David Biggs
SUBJECT:Title
Update on Six Month Trial Period on Meeting Management and Open Government Initiatives (Senior Management Analyst Biggs).
RECEIVE REPORT AND APPROVE MODIFICATIONS
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Receive report on Meeting Management and Open Government Initiatives and modify 1) agenda posting deadline to be end of day Wednesday, and 2) revert to action minutes in conjunction with enhanced video capabilities.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The only recommended action with a fiscal impact would be the return to Action minutes which would result in savings of $24,000 a year or more of third-party vendor costs.
BACKGROUND:
The City Council has been engaged in two significant initiatives related to Meeting Management and Open Government.
The Meeting Management efforts were undertaken by the City Council as a whole. The culmination of these efforts occurred on August 13, 2013, with the final actions embodied in a resolution approved by the City Council on October 1, 2013. The Meeting Management items were implemented as set forth in Attachment 1 - Meeting Management Matrix. The Meeting Management Matrix was developed following the numbering system presented in the August 13, 2013, agenda item (Attachment 2), with modification/additions made based on how the items evolved. The Open Government initiative was initiated in 2011 and was tasked to the Ad Hoc Open Government Subcommittee consisting of Mayor Howorth and Councilmember Lessor. The Subcommittee identified 28 open government items which have been implemented over a period of time, with direction on the final six of the 28 also discussed by the City Council on August 13, 2013, with final decisions also made on October 1, 2013.
There is a level of overlap between ...
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