The vast majority of US cities use Legistar to manage city council agendas. We use their API to make the agendas easier to browse – but 3 cities haven't made their API accessible – @sfbos@phlcouncil@baltcouncil – Why? Will you help us convince them to make the data available?
In light of the @metronashville conflict with @GovTennessee over council autonomy as covered by @naterau @wlpn and @TNLookout
as well as the @nytimes today, we fast tracked adding the council's agendas to https://t.co/b9rrs9RGw7 for faster browsing
Nashville Mayor John Cooper has announced that the city will be suing the state over a new law that slashes the size of Metro Council. WPLN's @BlaiseGainey reports the suit alleges that the law's requirements violate several parts of the TN Constitution. https://t.co/Pth97C1YVZ
📢 Tired of all that C-SPAN drama? Attend my talk this Thursday @GdGdallas on re-thinking #CivicTech and the "so what" of the @legigram project – now quickly serving local government agendas & matters for over 30 million local constituents and 25 places
https://t.co/uKH7WM3keU
On-premise digital display of upcoming council agendas must be viewable *w/o user interaction* in order to satisfy the Open Meetings requirement as per § 551.050 and guidance from a rep at @TXAG OM dept. – c.f. @CityofFortWorth's re-ratification this year
https://t.co/qbsZpP74rQ
The vast majority of US cities use Legistar to manage city council agendas. We use their API to make the agendas easier to browse – but 3 cities haven't made their API accessible – @sfbos@phlcouncil@baltcouncil – Why? Will you help us convince them to make the data available?
yup 1) write it out & time yourself. you usually get 1 minute & it goes fast 2) make your demand clear at the top 3) share any unique relevant knowledge you have from your own life/work experience 4) if possible, try not to insult the people you're speaking to
Big shout out to fellow traveler @jehiah for his work on https://t.co/VmDA1LgqgZ – another web app for viewing NYC council agendas. Check out the reports and council member pages in particular. Also c.f. his library in Go for scraping the underlying data.
We've added @cityofdentontx – hey neighbor! – and @CoMoGov who deserve some big kudos for their current accessible agenda. Come check out the agendas on https://t.co/BonRA4Q0T8
Hey #Boston – we've got @BOSCityCouncil on #Legigram in advance of their meeting this Wednesday – check out the agenda and give your local city hall reporters like @CotterReporter a follow via our list
https://t.co/x5uSDhE7nM
🚀 BIG visual refresh up today with filtering by matter status and type. And we welcome #charlotte@CLTgov – our first city in NC – so please check out our list of reporters including @Sharrison_WFAE@GennaContino@JoeBrunoWSOC9 https://t.co/JLwfawuXOT
90k downloads per minute right now. Here's downloads over the last six months for comparison. This is unlike anything we've ever seen. (Click to see the right hand edge of the chart.) Public dashboard here: https://t.co/Ipsv27aH78
City gov't reporters can help you better understand council meeting – especially if they live tweet like @HarrisonMantas – so for all our cities that have them, you can now find a link to our relevant Twitter list of reporters and city hall focused news outlets in the footer
@KansasCity And have a look at some of the folks like @narwhallington@Ian__Cummings @kynalap and @kcbjeditor who keep up with KC City Hall here https://t.co/PfiVlxvMBn – let us know if we missed anyone critical!