{"id":10128,"date":"2021-04-22T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2021-04-22T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:22:45","slug":"lakeland-city-commission-will-go-back-to-9am-moring-meetings-starting-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/04\/22\/lakeland-city-commission-will-go-back-to-9am-moring-meetings-starting-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"LAKELAND CITY COMMISSION WILL GO BACK TO 9AM MORING MEETINGS STARTING IN JUNE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Starting with the first City Commission meeting in June, the Lakeland City Commission will go back to meeting at 9 a.m. in the City Commission Chambers located at City Hall (228 South Massachusetts Avenue). \u00a0Two years ago, the Lakeland City Commission decided to look at an afternoon option after meeting at 9 a.m. for decades.\u00a0 The consensus of the Commission was to try afternoon meetings to see if audience participation would increase.<\/p>\n

The issue to move the meetings back to the morning was brought up by Interim City Commissioner Don Selvage during a recent Agenda Study session.\u00a0 The City Commission voted 6-1 on Monday, April 19th<\/sup>\u00a0to officially go back to 9 a.m. meetings. City commission meetings will move from 3 p.m.\u00a0back to 9 a.m. on Mondays\u00a0starting June 7, 2021. Commissioner Stephanie Madden stated that she would have liked additional public input and was the dissenting vote. City Commission meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at City Hall. The Utility Committee meetings, where the operations\u00a0of municipal-owned Lakeland Electric are discussed, will move from 1 p.m. on Mondays\u00a0to 11 a.m. on the Fridays before the scheduled City Commission meetings.<\/p>\n

Interim Commissioner Don Selvage said, “I know the\u00a0purpose\u00a0of going to a 3 p.m. meeting was to make it more accessible to general public but I have not seen a\u00a0demonstrable\u00a0increase in participation by\u00a0having it in the afternoon.”\u00a0Selvage said being back on the dais for four\u00a0months during the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced his view but he believes the virus has brought about other changes.<\/p>\n

Lakeland commission meetings can be watched\u00a0online via live streaming on the City’s website at\u00a0lakelandgov.net<\/a>\u00a0as well as broadcast on cable networks Spectrum Channel 643 and\u00a0FiOS Channel 43. Selvage said part of his reason to initiate the change was because residents often voice their opinions to officials\u00a0and advocate for issues through social media, or more directly via emails and phone calls rather than at the live meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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