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Urbana council adopts open-meeting procedures for Alternative Response Task Force and advances several consent items
Summary
Council approved a resolution directing that meetings of the Alternative Response Task Force be conducted consistent with the Illinois Open Meetings Act (with an added video-streaming requirement) and advanced a personnel- and zoning-related set of items to the city council consent agenda.
The Urbana Committee of the Whole adopted a council resolution directing that the Alternative Response Task Force (part of the community safety review) conduct meetings in a manner "consistent with the Illinois Open Meetings Act," and the council added a staff-drafted amendment requiring video recording and streaming similar to council and commission meetings.
Will (city staff) introduced the resolution and said it was drafted to reflect council direction from prior meetings and to be added to the consultant contract as an addendum. Council members expressed concern about the contract language and which project phase the resolution covered;…
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