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Brainerd staff to standardize meeting packets, move away from in‑meeting board portal; council member offers to help fix website
Summary
City staff proposed standardized packet emails with download links, new laptops, and to stop using the board portal during meetings to avoid slow Wi‑Fi and large PDFs. Council member Gabe Johnson offered to assist IT with search/SEO on the city website.
City staff told the Brainerd City Council and Public Utilities Commission at their July 28 workshop that they will stop using the in‑meeting board portal and instead send an autogenerated email with a link to download meeting packets.
IT and administrative staff said that board‑portal use in chambers creates extra clicks, scalability problems on small screens and delays when packet PDFs are large. The city plans to standardize packet production across departments, encourage members to download packets…
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