There was an abundance of clerks at the February 3 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.
Mat-Su Borough Clerk Lonnie McKechnie said they were shadowing in order to get a better understanding of the Granicus operating system.
McKechnie: “There’s other municipalities that have it but they’re the ones that we can come in and actually watch them as they’re working through the beginnings of it. There’s other places that have it but they have a mixture of a number of things and its not just Granicus.”
Granicus is a company founded in 1999 which aims to help government reach their constituents, according to its website. Sometime around 2005 it began offering online video streaming of local government meetings across the U.S.
McKechnie said their time shadowing the Kenai Peninsula staff was helpful in learning how to prepare agendas, what the public sees from the audience side of the system and how the assembly members use the system to vote.
She added if Mat-Su decides to use the system they hope to implement it by this summer.