Not yet ready to settle on a final plan, the Ordinance and Rules subcommittee unanimously voted to table a petition from Ward 1 Councilor Helen Moon requesting that city and council continue to offer a virtual and call-in option beyond COVID-19 for all public meetings.
"I think that COVID has taught us that we can have in-person meetings, but we can also offer virtual meetings," Moon said. "And while we have outliers that can take up a lot of space in our virtual spaces, I think that the net is positive when we are bringing democracy to a larger segment of our population and so I think that this is a meaningful change, allowing people who don't typically have the capacity to join in-person meetings for whatever reason that they have to continue to participate."