Dear Ms. Herren,
I'm having several problems trying to join Zoom meetings of the IRC (12/9 and 12/11 and prior):
1. The Zoom ID number provided for the Zoom meetings this past week had a typo; Zoom responded that the ID including "-7735-" didn't exist. "-7735-" should have been "-7733-" apparently.
Even after this correction, the meetings didn't open on my MacBook laptop or iPhone; a promise to open "in a few seconds" was all I saw on the page where progress stalled. I waited but no connection was made.
2. Searching for "Independent Redistricting Committee" or "-- Commission" with the menlopark.org general Search tool brings up hundreds of citations of every Committee or Commission, of which only a few are about IRC, of which all are about past meetings, none about current or future meetings. Very unhelpful. The Search tool is not sufficiently selective for reducing the number of citations to the topic of inquiry.
3. The Council just passed a Resolution establishing the IRC and I read a notice about including IRC in the city's Meetings and Agenda webpages. This direction hasn't been implemented. IRC is not yet listed among the city's Committees and Commissions anywhere I looked; searching for it with the tool offered at the Meetings and Agenda heading is futile, despite links to this page that are present in notices published over your signature about this past week's meetings.
I would be surprised, if I'm the first to bring such problems to your attention. Please revisit the provisions you have made to publicize the IRC meetings and ensure that the policies of open government and public outreach are being respected.
Sincerely,
Peter Edmonds
Resident, District 3
