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Santa Paula highlights website tools, newsletter and Spanish interpretation to boost civic access
Summary
City Clerk Julie Latchaw, a website narrator and Nicole Aspera (City Manager's Office) outline how residents can access agendas, request live Spanish interpretation at council meetings, subscribe to the city's "Your Santa Paula Connection" newsletter, and watch meetings via Spectrum channel 10 or the city's agenda center.
City officials used the video to walk residents through tools for following local government and participating in meetings.
Julie Latchaw, the city clerk, said the city "offers live two way interpretation services" in Spanish with no advance request needed and explained the process for obtaining headphones and interpreter assistance when a public comment card is submitted in Spanish. An unnamed website narrator described how to use the agenda center at spcity.org to find upcoming and past council agendas, minutes and related documents, how to use the search box for archives, and how to subscribe to agenda notifications by email.
Nicole Aspera of the city manager's office promoted the city's digital newsletter, "Your Santa Paula Connection," available in English and Spanish; she outlined subscription routes (the city website, the public information office, and a QR code) and noted past issues are archived online. The video advised viewers who cannot attend in person to watch live via Spectrum channel 10's stream or review archived meetings.
The city clerk's statements about interpretation services and the narrator's instructions on the agenda center were presented as operational guidance; the segment did not include a step‑by‑step visual of the web pages in the transcript text itself. Viewers were directed to visit spcity.org for details.
