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Highlights: new member, draft ordinance motion, social media access problems
Summary
Key moments from the St. Louis City Poet Laureate Task Force meeting: the task force welcomed India Golunde, moved to draft updates to ordinance 697879 to clarify post‑selection duties, and discussed recovering or creating official social‑media accounts for the laureate; Christine Gracias will coordinate IT email and account work.
India Golunde introduced herself as an adjunct professor at STLCC and a poet working on a manuscript and said poetry helps "connect people all ... all sorts of people." The chair moved that the task force draft proposed updates to ordinance number 697879 to define the group’s role after selection; the motion was seconded and drafting was assigned as a follow‑up. Poet Laureate Patia Elaine Anderson described an inaccessible historic Facebook page and an artist Instagram; members asked staff to work with IT to recover or recreate an official, city‑controlled presence and to provide a city email address for the laureate.
Action items: staff to edit IT use agreement for poet laureate city email, chair to schedule onboarding calls and circulate candidate bios, and the task force to review draft ordinance language ahead of the next meeting (Dec. 8).
