Virtual attendance
The Greensboro City Council is a busy bunch of people.
They take nice vacations. They travel for business or church. They've cancelled a handful of meetings this year, because their schedules couldn't mesh.
Now council has approved a plan to allow members to attend via telephone if they can't be in the Melvin Municipal Office Building.
That's probably a good thing, since this council tends to hang on a 5-4 split. Every vote counts. But it will be interesting to see what kind of rules they set up to govern this concept.
For instance, how will they vote? Can all the council members attend virtually, or do some have to actually be in the building? Of course then there are all the incidentals, like how will they review paperwork submitted to them by staff or other folks at the meeting?
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