Council office to send individualized weekly environmental court docket notices to members

Staff told the executive committee that Metro Law will provide weekly environmental court dockets and disposition notices and the council office will parse those dockets to notify individual members when cases affect their districts.

Margaret Darby explained that Metro Law issues dockets weekly on Tuesdays and provides a separate notice showing dispositions from the prior week. Because the docket files include internal annotations and color‑coding used by the Law Department, council staff will review incoming dockets to determine which cases pertain to which district and then send individualized emails to members whose districts are affected.

Why it matters: council members asked for tailored notice so they would not be inundated with full dockets for every district. The vice mayor said staff will send members only the cases that are in their district for the upcoming week and the dispositions from the prior week.

Staff warned that the initial batch of dockets may include heavily annotated files that can be confusing; Darby asked members to contact the council office if an item in the docket is unclear so staff can seek clarification from the Law Department. "If you receive the email and there's something in it that doesn't make sense to you, just let me know and we will try to get that hammered out for you," Darby said.

Implementation details: dockets will be routed individually rather than as one mass email. The office will identify district matches and forward documents accordingly; members will receive both the upcoming docket and a follow‑up with dispositions for the prior week.