Council in brief: our promise on process
City Hall coverage in four paragraphs is only honest if the reading behind it was longer. Here is how this desk will work.
A brief council story is the end of the process, not the process. Behind each one: the agenda read in advance, the staff report, the debate as it happened and the vote as recorded. The compression happens after the homework, never instead of it.
We will identify the meeting and item every council story comes from, so the four paragraphs can always be checked against the full record.
Municipal government across the Lower Mainland is many councils, not one; where a decision in one city moves the others, the desk will say so plainly.
