Local Government 101: Local Issues - City Council Meetings
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Welcome back to Local Government 101. Today we will be discussing city council meetings. Please refer to my last blog Local Government: Mayors and City Council if you need a city council refresher or to read my bio to determine why I think I'm qualified to write this blog. Let's dig in. Have you ever attended a city council meeting? If not, I highly recommend you attend meetings, or at least watch online occasionally This will give you have an understanding of what is going on in your community. Meetings differ, but I will attempt to give you the lay of the land as I know it - mainly from my city Thornton, CO though I've attended council meetings around the Denver metro area. There is generally a welcome by the mayor, possibly the pledge of allegiance, and even less likely, a prayer. In Thornton we had prayer up until about 2017 when a new set of councilmembers decided it was not in our best interest to have prayer as a part of the meeting. I loved that part of the meetin...