City of Coldwater issued the following announcement on Dec. 7.
Electronic Meeting of the City of Coldwater Board of Review
Video and Telephone Conferencing Meeting Notice
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 10 a.m.
Pursuant to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon’s Emergency Order dated October 5, 2020, now in effect, which imposed restrictions on gatherings, including public meetings, to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and in compliance with Michigan’s Open Meeting Act as amended in Public Act 228 of 2020 which provides that public bodies subject to the Open Meetings Act may use telephone and or video conferencing technology to meet remotely and conduct business until December 31, 2020, the City of Coldwater Board of Review will hold a Regular Meeting via telephone conferencing at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, for purpose of conducting such business that comes before the Board. For current and up-to-date information regarding the coronavirus, visit: http://www.Michigan.gov/Coronavirus or http://www.CDC.gov/Coronavirus.
Members of the public may view and participate in the meeting by the following methods:
ELECTRONIC BOARD OF REVIEW MEETING ACCESS
For individuals who may wish to give public comment, the method for providing public comment during this remote-participation meeting is to call the following toll-free numbers:
1-888-475-4499 (Meeting ID: 836 6639 2319) A Participant ID is not required.
Callers wishing to give public comment may call in before the meeting starts and wait in a “virtual waiting room.” These instructions will be included in every official published agenda of the BOARD OF REVIEW. Those calling in will be able to hear the audio of the BOARD OF REVIEW meeting, but they will be muted until called on. Callers who do not wish to give public comment are encouraged to view the meeting live-streamed on YouTube at, bit.ly/ColdwaterVideo and also on Skitter Channel 61.
ELECTRONIC BOARD OF REVIEW MEETING PARTICIPATION
The following are the procedures by which members of the public may contact members of the public body to provide input or ask questions about any business that will come before it.
- To help meeting flow and organization, and consistent with BOARD OF REVIEW procedures, all public comment will be taken during public comment periods at the beginning of the meeting and again at the end of the meeting.
- To make a public comment during a public comment period, press *9 on a touchtone phone or keypad to “raise your hand” to be called on. When called upon, press *6 to unmute your device. Then, please state your name and express your interest.
- The time limit for an individual’s public comments shall remain 5 minutes.
- Member David Smoker: wakesmoke5@gmail.com
- Member Helen Guisinger: rrguisinger@gmail.com
- Member Linda Shaffer:shafferleb@gmail.com
- City Assessor Deb Sikorski: dsikorski@coldwater.org
- City Building Official: kfickle@coldwater.org
- City Office Administrator: salbright@coldwater.org
- City Clerk Susan Heath: sheath@coldwater.org
http://www.coldwater.org/AgendaCenter. Scroll down and select the specific public body and meeting to view the agenda and materials.
The City of Coldwater will provide reasonably necessary auxiliary aids for viewing the meeting including YouTube and Skitter Channel 61, and will provide Closed Captioning upon request. If other aids are needed for persons with disabilities, please contact the City Clerk at sheath@coldwater.org at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
Technical support for this meeting will be available by calling the CBPU Help Desk at 517-279-1330.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Coldwater
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