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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2021-07-19 | 5 | Commission distinguishes it from others; how officers are selected accounts for that; there is also a habit in the order of appointment, which, should be codified if it will be the practice. Commissioner LoPilato stated the comments are helpful; she will tinker with some options and bring it back to the group; continued her presentation. Commissioner Reid stated that she was going to suggest no new items be considered after 10:00 p.m. unless a supermajority of the Commission votes to allow the items to be heard; this would facilitate more communication with the public so the meetings do not go too long with the potential for losing participants. Chair Tilos stated he could support either 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Vice Chair Shabazz stated his main concern is the public's ability to participate; if the practice is to have Commissioner Communications as the mechanism to get things on the agenda, he would be concerned about things that do not get on the agenda; the Commission takes a long time to have discussions and go over details; he would encourage having only three minutes for Commission Communications and have that section first; it depends on the composition of the group. Commissioner LoPilato stated that she will do a little research on the other bodies that do it in a similar way. The City Clerk stated the section in the original bylaws matched a deleted section of the Sunshine Ordinance. Commissioner LoPilato stated it would be great to allow non-agenda items to be a space to encourage community members to come forward outside of the complaint process with issues they are facing; inquired whether there are strong preferences on the minutes section. Commissioner Reid stated the bylaws state draft minutes should be available in 10 days; inquired whether it would be possible to publish the draft minutes as soon as possible. The City Clerk responded the deadline of 10 business days for draft minutes is always met; stated unapproved minutes are not published in the agenda database because members of the public could think they are approved and take them and run with them; if the Commission finds fault in the unapproved minutes, posting them would be misleading to the public. Commissioner Chen stated when reading the minutes, she felt like she relived every minute of the meeting; she would suggest moving in the other direction of having just a basic outline of the discussion with the key points and having the last paragraph state the decision; she gets bogged down reading the minutes and is having trouble reliving the entire experience; it is not helpful to her and actually works the opposite of transparency Meeting of the Open Government Commission 5 July 19, 2021 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2021-07-19.pdf |