Minutes - Council Work Session - 03/15/2022 - Special

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as she could to people, she has not suggested that people who raise concerns are welcome to come on election day but that option is always available. Deputy City Administrator/Community Dev. Director Hagen replied another option as an absentee voter is to go online to check the status of their ballot so as Staff starts processing it, they can see that it has been accepted. Administrative Services Director Lasher agreed, adding there is a barcode on it that they go into the State Voter Registration System to check and see that their ballot has been scanned. Councilmember Howell commented last year she heard compliments from residents on the enveloping system and the way ballots were handled. Administrative Services Director Lasher thanked her, adding they worked really hard and it was quite a feat. She asked if Councilmember Howell was referring to the presidential election. Councilmember Howell confirmed this. Councilmember Riley brought up an item for future discussion that he would like to see a procedure that City Council doesn’t take up a new case after 10:00 p.m. because going until after 1 a.m., the Council and residents aren’t served well when it is that late. He stated they could discuss the time frame and emphasized this isn’t an effort to limit debate. He stated if there are timelines such as a 60-day time period, those cases go first as well as important cases. He stated he thought it was foreseeable that the meeting last week was going to go as long as it did. He thought Staff could have direction to trim cases and have a policy that Council wouldn’t take up cases after a certain time. He didn’t think having a hard stop would make sense. Councilmember Musgrove asked if they were discussing topics for future topics on the agenda. Mayor Kuzma replied he would like to see that on the next agenda. Councilmember Riley commented he was suggesting an idea. Councilmember Musgrove asked if she could suggest an idea, that is why she was asking. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied Future Topics isn’t on the agenda. Councilmember Specht asked about polling places, stating after the last meeting they talked about some notes of maybe changing how the One and Two boundaries were going to be, restoring Three and Four, and looking at Two and Three. He asked if it was determined those changes were possible. He stated he knew they had taken those three notes down but the changes weren’t seen in the final product. He asked if those changes were determined to not be feasible. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied she knew it was looked at extensively and that Civil Engineer IV Linton had looked at that. She asked if she should try to get him on the phone City Council Special Work Session / March 15, 2022 Page 17 of 19