CivicLex presented recommendations to improve Public Input to Council

Last week, I presented to Lexington’s first Council Committee of the year about CivicLex’s recommendations for improving the public input process for legislative items. That presentation was the culmination of two years worth of research, community engagement, and data crunching that raised up the perspectives of over 1,000 Fayette County residents.

I’m very grateful to CM Hannah LeGris, MA GCDF for agreeing to chair a Workgroup for the City of Lexington to determine how to implement our recommendations. Any one of the recommendations on their own would make it easier for the public to engage, but together, they could represent the most substantial shift in openness and transparency our Council has had in years. I’m thrilled that the Council is looking at these recommendations in a comprehensive way.

If a set of these recommendations is adopted, it will be yet another reason that Lexington deserves its status as the first Our Common Purpose Community in the nation.

As always, I’m thankful for former CM Susan Lamb for being open and enthusiastic about taking this on in the first place.

You can read the recommendations here.