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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2022-02-07 | 3 | to use and members could even run the tally themselves; the Next Request demonstration later tonight may help address and alleviate some of the Commission's questions. Speaker: Jay Garfinkle, Alameda, congratulated Vice Chair Chen on the monumental task; stated the Commission's duty is to enhance transparency of the government activities; ad hoc committees are subject to the Brown Act; the Police study done last year should have been open; the Commission needs to be very liberal when making recommendations to the City Council as to what it should be doing; encouraged monthly PRA updates; suggested Police PRAs also be reviewed by the Commission; the Commission should define what is meant by "private account" regarding social media. Commissioner Cambra stated he concurs with all the suggested edits made by Chair LoPilato; suggested adding a brief description of "creating a legislative affairs website" in addition to using the link to the Legislative Affairs for those folks who are reading a hard copy; also suggested including the 2021 hearing results. Vice Chair Chen stated the 2021 figures are included in the report; it is not listed in the chart, but is included as text. Commissioner Cambra stated there does not seem to be specific references back into the report for the three cases listed in the appendix which occurred prior to 2021; inquired if it would be appropriate to incorporate the data into the existing report. Vice Chair Chen responded it due to time and COVID limitations; stated that she and former Vice Chair Shabazz met on the phone several times to try to create the document together; in actuality, two documents were created; the portion in the appendix was created by former Vice Chair Shabazz without a give-and-take between the two of them; she thought the information he had is important and worthy of being included; she decided to include the information in an appendix with a disclaimer at the top; she is reluctant to remove it as this is the first report and other things have happened before this report that were not recorded anywhere in history; moving forward the report could be more precise. Commissioner Tilos stated that he values the comments from Commissioner Cambra and Vice Chair Chen; he believes over 80% of the message the Commission wants to convey is in the report; he is comfortable with the report as is; there is valuable information in the appendix and he does not want it removed; in the interest of time, he is leaning towards the report being the final product. Commissioner Montgomery moved approval of accepting the report with the edits. Commissioner Tilos seconded the motion. Under discussion, Chair LoPilato stated replacement language needs to be suggested Meeting of the Open Government Commission February 7, 2022 3 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2022-02-07.pdf |