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North Lauderdale officials review Granicus VoteCast for electronic agendas and voting
Summary
City staff previewed Granicus VoteCast and related agenda-management tools during a Feb. 11 workshop and asked the commission for direction to compare the product with existing systems, evaluate compatibility and public-records/open-meeting implications, and phase implementation.
City of North Lauderdale commissioners and staff spent the Feb. 11 workshop reviewing Granicus meeting-management software, including the VoteCast electronic voting module, and sought direction from the commission on whether to pursue the system further.
The discussion began with City Manager Sarges describing the proposed change: the Granicus suite would automate routing of agenda items through departments and move internal agenda review to Thursday before meetings so commissioners could give input before the agenda is published later that day. "Granicus is a software that will allow us to produce an agenda item for the commission," Sarges said. Staff also showed a roughly 22-minute vendor demonstration of VoteCast that illustrated minute-taking, a speaker queue, motion capture, and electronic voting.
Why it matters: staff said the system could…
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