Public commenter urges transparency in minutes and spending, announces 'transparentglendale.org'

During oral communications a long-time attendee urged the committee to strengthen transparency around meeting minutes and budget decisions. The commenter pointed to recent appeals by children to keep a public pool open and to a library-budget request and contrasted those requests with previously cited large overtime and pension payments.

He said the city has failed to provide adequate justifications for proposed rate increases and that he would post meeting transcriptions and analysis online. "It's up and running," he said of the site, "but I need to load the rest of it, where I plan to put every single transcription of all of our meetings, of the meetings that you have had during all this time with an analysis and the comparison of the minutes the way they are being presented to you." The committee thanked him for the submission and did not take formal action on the claims during the meeting.