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POR 2008-283

City Manager confer with the City Solicitor to provide an update to the Government Operations and Rules Committee on the extent to which email between a city councillor and a private citizen is a public record, and whether there are distinctions based on whether the computer is the councillor’s private computer or a computer supplied by the City, whether the message was sent to the councillor’s City Council email address and then bounced to his or her private address by the city’s IT systems or sent directly to the councillor at his or her private address, and whether the subject of the email is a matter that is currently before the City Council or just a question that concerns city business or procedures but is not an item currently before the council

What happened

The clerk's record shows no vote or disposition against this item. Some are received and filed without one, and a roundtable takes no votes at all. If the city's record shows otherwise, that is exactly what an audit should catch.