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Residents urge later meeting times, praise local museum and raise homelessness and safety concerns
Summary
Public commenters asked the council to consider after-work meeting hours and two-way engagement, praised the Museum of Art and History as a vital local resource, and raised homelessness, preparedness and personal safety complaints; the council took comments but did not change meeting schedules at this session.
Several residents used the public‑comment period to press the council on meeting accessibility, to praise local cultural investments and to raise urgent personal safety and homelessness concerns.
Elena Dixon asked whether regular council and board meetings could be moved to after‑work hours to allow more residents to attend and whether the city ever holds meetings designed for two‑way engagement. "What would it take for the council meetings and regular like city board meetings that are for the public to ever be moved until like after work hours so that more people could…
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