Public meetings are meant to be where communities and governments conduct business, learn about important issues, and make crucial decisions about courses of action. However, public servants and elected officials...
Public meetings are where decisions are made, but they’re often seen as unwelcoming, overly formal, or ineffective spaces for two-way dialogue. If you’ve ever left a meeting thinking, there has...
Local democratic meetings are facing significant challenges. Some of these challenges include poor or limited attendance, polarized atmospheres that consist of division between members of a community and between members...
‘Time is a gift. Every minute. Every second.’ -Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass ‘If you knew Time as well as I do, said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t...
Webinar: Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings For years, there have been headlines across the country regarding the contentiousness of public meetings. On the one hand, the public is angry...
There have been some startling examples recently of public meetings that have gone off the rails. City council and school board meetings convened to discuss vaccine and mask mandates have...
