Public Meeting Analysis

All students are required to virtually “attend” apublic meeting and draft a minimum 1,600-word analysis of the meeting. Publicmeetings can include but are not limited to select board, school board, zoningboard, recreation boards, legislative sessions, etc.  It does not matter where you attend themeeting, as long as it relates directly to public business (e.g., city/countycouncil, local school board, zoning commission, etc).

The assignment is DUE no later than 11:59 pm on Friday,August 12.

At minimum your write-up should address the following:

A description of what transpired during the meeting (form ofleadership, structure, room set-up, number of people present, their variousroles, summary of issues, content of meeting, and so on).

What issues were addressed? Were there problems confronted?Concerns identified? Issues raised? Problem-solving methods? Citizeninvolvement? Your own involvement?

What did you observe about the role of public input? Werethere members of the public in attendance? Did they speak? Why is this relevantto discuss?

Any additional discussion of how the content/format of themeeting relates to the course material.

Why are public meetings important, both in general andspecifically as it relates to the operation of local governments?

Anything else you think is worth noting.

Information on meeting schedules/locations can be found oncity (Links to an external site.)/county (Links to an external site.)/regional(Links to an external site.) government websites. Info on meetings in othercities is likely found on their official website.

I will follow a simple rubric (Links to an external site.)when grading your work.

Video to Analyze:

https://sdcounty.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=9&clip_id=3019