City council meetings are an important aspect of community and engagement. This representative form of government is responsible for coming to consensus on various agenda items as well as hearing questions, concerns, and demands from members of the community. City council meetings tend to have a list of consent agenda items, which are items that are voted on by the council in a single roll call vote. Members of the community or council have the ability to request an item on the agenda be removed for discussion. Typically items that tend to be more controversial are removed for discussion.
City council gives members of the community a chance to voice their concern on various things. Such as an event that is taking place or an issue regarding
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It was also an interesting experience even though this particular meeting did not have much controversy or debate that took place. During the city council meeting a variety of things were on the agenda, but one item that particularly stood out was the bike event since one of the council member had questions regarding this event. The bike event refers to a motorcycle event that is taking place in Oshkosh for the very first time. There were questions regarding the safety and any overall problems that could result from an event such as this. Since motorcycle riders tend to have a bad rap because of motorcycle gangs, but The sheriff of Oshkosh assured that this particular event would be safe with no resulting problems since he did research and talked to other cities that have had this type of event in the past. This is a good example of a member of council looking out for the community and making sure that nothing bad could potentially come from events that take place within the city limits. As a member of City council it is their job to look out for the community’s best interest and this is something that I observed from the council