How has COVID-19 altered how local elected officials govern their communities?
Carolyn Muyskens, The Holland Sentinel
Published
11:06 am UTC Apr. 10, 2021
With COVID-19 forcing local city council and township board meetings online, technology problems have become the norm.Zoom
HOLLAND The Laketown Township Board of Trustees was in the midst of a roll-call for a vote to approve the township s much-discussed budget for the next fiscal year including doubling the township s operating millage when they discovered a township trustee had disappeared from the Zoom meeting. Where s Jim Delaney? asked Supervisor Linda Howell. He took off, responded a member of the public watching on Zoom.
HOLLAND — Final tweaks are being made to a draft of the Holland Unified Development Ordinance, expected to be presented to city council in March.The UDO is primarily a reformatting, simplification and collection of the city s multiple zoning and development ordinances into one place, making the city s zoning and building standards more user-friendly.Planners have also used UDO as an opportunity to update zoning code to 21st century planning standards and have proposed a number of changes