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Astoria council debates moving from verbatim minutes to faster summaries, staff to propose options to restore captions and timestamps
Summary
Councilors discussed switching from verbatim meeting minutes to action‑oriented summaries while restoring the prior video player transcription/captioning features so the public can access proceedings more quickly; staff said the city's Granicus archiving system can support timestamps and council asked for draft policy language at a future meeting.
Astoria City Councilors on Jan. 5 debated whether to continue producing verbatim meeting minutes or to move to shorter action‑oriented summaries while making unedited meeting transcripts and captions more accessible to the public.
Councilor Davis argued that summary minutes coupled with the unedited Zoom transcript and video would improve timeliness and public access: "If you…
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