UPDATED: Council Committee notes - City website / Neighborhood Conversations
"Finance, Administration and Communication" Council meeting talking points:
The City Website: Phase One involved community outreach and is complete. Phase Two is underway and involves building out the design. 90% of the design is done with 5,000 pages reduced to 1500 pages. (This just gives you and idea how outdated this website is; many of us have been asking for a new website for almost a decade.) In response to Council member Steve Fields' question about how many employees were involved in Phase Two, Communications Director Lisa Mayre said 50 staff representing all departments participated in the updates. 12- 15 "super users" from planning and land use played a major role. Mr. Myers asked for Search engine improvements. Apparently, we'll have them. (I get better luck on google.) We can expect more photos and videos too. Launch month is February.
Neighborhood Conversations: Jill Smith is now a member of the Communications team and will be running the "Neighborhood Conversations" programs. I believe she was, and still is, the City's economic development manager. It appeared Council will continue to have their "conversation" events, as usual, in the single family home neighborhoods, however, the idea of a daytime business meeting was well received by all members. Council member Fields "thought there should be a minimum of 3 to five meetings." He suggested Microsoft could "invite us." He advised keeping politics out of the events since it's an election year. Council member Jeralee Anderson suggested holding the daytime business conversation in the Downtown Park weather permitting. Though she works (as does Margeson, Fields, and Carson) with proper notice she could attend. It was decided the events be held in the summer after school's out distancing themselves from the November election. Carson, Myers, Birney, and Margeson's terms end December 31, 2019.
-- Bob Yoder
Source: "Finance, Administration and Communications" Council meeting, 1/22/19.
Hank has served on Redmond�s City Council since January 2008 and is now serving his third term. He has served on advisory boards for Metro Transit and the Bellevue School District. Councilmember Myers is a Transportation Economist working in all modes of transportation including experience in commercial aviation, public transit, and passenger ferry service. Hank began his professional career with Hughes Airwest as a regulatory affairs specialist before moving to the northwest to become Director of Government Affairs and Pricing for Alaska Airlines. He has a Bachelor�s degree in English from California State University. Hank currently represents the City on the Local Hazardous Waste Management Coordinating Committee (LHWMCC) and on the Water Resource Inventory Area 8 (WRIA 8) Salmon Recovery Council. A 42-year resident and living in the Viewpoint area of Redmond, Hank is married to Christine and has two grown children. He likes to spend time volunteering with Green Redmond and at the Center for Wooden Boats.
The City Website: Phase One involved community outreach and is complete. Phase Two is underway and involves building out the design. 90% of the design is done with 5,000 pages reduced to 1500 pages. (This just gives you and idea how outdated this website is; many of us have been asking for a new website for almost a decade.) In response to Council member Steve Fields' question about how many employees were involved in Phase Two, Communications Director Lisa Mayre said 50 staff representing all departments participated in the updates. 12- 15 "super users" from planning and land use played a major role. Mr. Myers asked for Search engine improvements. Apparently, we'll have them. (I get better luck on google.) We can expect more photos and videos too. Launch month is February.
Neighborhood Conversations: Jill Smith is now a member of the Communications team and will be running the "Neighborhood Conversations" programs. I believe she was, and still is, the City's economic development manager. It appeared Council will continue to have their "conversation" events, as usual, in the single family home neighborhoods, however, the idea of a daytime business meeting was well received by all members. Council member Fields "thought there should be a minimum of 3 to five meetings." He suggested Microsoft could "invite us." He advised keeping politics out of the events since it's an election year. Council member Jeralee Anderson suggested holding the daytime business conversation in the Downtown Park weather permitting. Though she works (as does Margeson, Fields, and Carson) with proper notice she could attend. It was decided the events be held in the summer after school's out distancing themselves from the November election. Carson, Myers, Birney, and Margeson's terms end December 31, 2019.
-- Bob Yoder
Source: "Finance, Administration and Communications" Council meeting, 1/22/19.
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| Hank Myers Credit/Redmond Reporter |
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