Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Records Management topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Vendor Granicus briefs Flint council on records upgrades tied to clerk budget request
Summary
Representatives from Granicus presented a plan to improve Flint’s legislative records, accessibility and transparency and noted the work ties to a clerk-and-council budget amendment on the agenda.
Representatives from Granicus told Flint council members on May 26 that the company’s platform could help the city make agendas, votes and records more accessible, searchable and trackable. "Granicus is a citizen engagement platform," said Wson Sitman, identifying himself as lead of Granicus’s local sales team, and noting Granicus works with thousands of government agencies nationwide and has supported Flint for more than a decade.
Britney Greer, Granicus account executive and the city’s main point of contact, said the project focuses on three areas: people, process and technology. "It's about putting the right systems in place to enable better governance, greater accountability, and more effective use of time and resources," Greer said, adding the vendor has listened to council and resident meetings to tailor priorities around accessibility, multilingual support, closed captioning, searchable records and secure compliance.
The clerk had scheduled the presentation as a special-order item and told the council a related budget amendment for the clerk and council offices is on the same agenda. Granicus representatives described the platform as a way to create a public record trail for agendas, votes and follow-ups and to improve staff efficiency and resident access to information.
Council members set a 30-minute allotment for the presentation and questions, with roughly 20 minutes for the vendor and 10 minutes for council questions. The presentation closed before the committee moved on to other agenda items.
The clerk’s budget amendment tied to the presentation remained on the docket; the council did not take final action on the budget item during the Special Affairs meeting and will consider budget items later in the meeting or at subsequent sessions.
