no additional facilities have changed status at this time
TARA staff is evaluating adding a column to Socrata open dataset of Community Connection sites.
Comm Yeatts reached out to Library IT staff to advise us well in advance of library connections rollouts
Ruiz is next
3c. Community Engagement Working Group
Comm Yeatts announces that neighbor planning group is now offering classes on how to get information out of the City website.
scheduled a class for his own neighborhood, Nov 17th (?)
Neighborhood groups are interested in topics like:
Planning Commission agenda items
neighborhood contact teams
GIS information
Comm Das Gupta city websites have too much information, recommends to increase white space.
are there ways to give feedback to the City?
ex: simplify content
unify content between departments
Comm Yeatts each department has control over their own section of the website thus hard to maintain standards
Comm Williams suggests collecting formal suggestions from community members as a baseline to pass on to departments
Comm Williams potential action item for Open Gov Working Group, this is a user test group. Guided sessions with specific outcome of gathering usability feedback.
Comm Das Gupta recognizes this is a key part of Open Government ideals
Comm Clarke other cities have Community User Testing (CUT) Groups via community civic tech orgs (Miami, Chicago), this make be a good recommendation for our Commission to provide Council
3d. Open Government Working Group
Comm Clarke
Updating Open Government Resolution
Lem, Mateo & Virgilia had a phone conference with CIO Stephen Elkins
discuss the needs for updates with existing resolutions and other parallel initiatives being discusses by Open Government Operating Board
Lem & Mateo had an in person meeting with ACM Rey Arellano & CIO Stephen Elkins going further on this discussion.
shared Open Austin’s 2016 Advocacy
Agenda
discussed best next steps to update Open Gov policies and share communication across these different efforts.
discussed how to include input from the Commission into this Board, and how to share updates back to the Open Government Working Group
Next Steps:
Elkins & Arellano will share points from our conversation at next Operating Board meeting
could potential create a seat on the board for a CTTC Commissioner
could streghten reporting requirements to CTTC to charter
Mateo has requested minutes from previous Operating Board meetings