ADDITIONAL
City Council Announcements
March 6, 2012
2:42:52 PM Jordan River
The Council may hold a discussion about reconsidering the Council’s action of February 21, 2012 which adopted a resolution to join the Jordan River Commission and identifying Council Chair Søren Simonsen as the City’s representative on the Commission and Council Member Kyle LaMalfa as the alternate.
Cindy Gust-Jenson said the City Attorney Ed Rutan’s legal opinion was that the appointment to the Jordan River Commission was a Mayor’s appointment not a Council appointment. Mr. Rutan said there was no case or statute which gave the answer.
Councilmember Love said she would make a motion to recall her previous motion and then move to join the Jordan River Commission. Councilmember Simonsen said Salt Lake City should have a representative at the meeting next week. He asked that a representative be named this evening. David Everitt, Mayor’s Chief of Staff said he would check with the Mayor.
Information needed by Council Staff
A. 3:23:21 PM Council Policy Review
Based on retreat discussions, direction from the Chair and Vice Chair, and necessary updates, staff has prepared a few updates to Sections of the Council’s Policy Manual. They are attached and relate to:
1) Internal content and usage guidelines for Social Media (please note that item b3 on this policy is an expansion of service), and
2) Council Members’ communications equipment and reimbursements.
Is the Council okay with the proposed changes?
B. 3:33:18 PM Emergency EOC Activation Excercise
An Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Activation Exercise is scheduled on Tuesday March 13th at 9am – 11am in the COW (Room 326) with Cory Lyman. During this exercise you will be going over catastrophic event (earthquake) activation and “degraded” EOC and communications processes. Cory will also review the HAZUS Data they have and the enormous scope of the Salt Lake Valley earthquake damage. Councilman Christensen and Cindy Gust Jenson attended the previous exercise.
Are any of the Council Members able to attend the exercise on the 13th?
For Your Information
A. 3:35:26 PM Visit Salt Lake 2012 Annual Dinner & Dianne Nelson Binger Scholarship Fundraiser
The Event is on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 6pm – 9pm – Natural History Museum of Utah – 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City. Complimentary parking available at the Museum. RSVP online.
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Registration
Reception
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm Dinner/Business Meeting
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Dessert and Visit the Museum
Please let Council Staff know if you would like to attend.
B. 3:35:40 PM University of Utah think tank
Randy L.
Dryer, a professor at the University of Utah has been teaching a year-long
Think Tank on Transparency and Privacy in the University’s Honors College this
past Fall semester. The students in the Think Tank studied the issues of
government transparency and are now working on a practical project. The
students have drafted a set of transparency “best practices” for local
governments to endorse and implement as financial resources become
available. On April 11, 2012 the students will have a public kickoff
news event launching a state-wide campaign seeking to have every city, town and
county in the state formally consider and, hopefully, endorse the best
practices. At the request of Council chair/vice chair, attached is a copy of the
five transparency best practices for local governments drafted by the
students.
According to Randy Dryer, the campaign has the backing of
several community and news media organizations If you wish to know more
about the Think Tank, the course web site is located at http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/honors.
Several weeks ago KSL TV News did a live story on the Think Tank and the Deseret
News also published a story about the course (news story is attached along
with 5 best practices)
See Attachments