Capitol News

City of East Tawas issued the following announcement on Oct 7.

Virtual Special Meeting of the Tawas Police Authority

Virtual Meeting Notice

Friday, October 8, at 8:00 a.m.

In accordance with the currently adopted local state of emergency by the Iosco County Board of Commissioners and Open Meetings Act allowing public bodies to conduct electronic meetings with remote participation until December 31, 2021.  The Tawas Police Authority will hold an electronic meeting via telephone/video conferencing at 8:00 AM on Friday, October 8, 2021, for the purpose of discussing MERS.

ELECTRONIC Tawas Police Authority MEETING ACCESS

For individuals who may wish to give public comment, the method for providing public comment during this remote-participation meeting is to click on the link (or copy and paste to your browser) or call the following numbers:

Tawas City Hall is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Special TPA Meeting

Time: Oct 8, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88475432085?pwd=a0s3NWN6cXJIaFlRU0FaWWU0VkpHQT09

Meeting ID: 884 7543 2085

Passcode: 540504

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,88475432085# US (Washington DC)

+13126266799,,88475432085# US (Chicago)

Participant ID is not required.

Virtual participants and those calling in will be able to hear the audio of the Tawas Police Authority meeting and make comments as specified below.     

ELECTRONIC TAWAS POLICE AUTHORITY MEETING PARTICIPATION

The following are the procedures by which persons 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, all public comment—will be taken during the public comments section only. 
  • Virtual audience: 

1. The Chair will announce that we have reached our public comments section.

• • 1. The Chair will ask the moderator to announce the first person who wishes to speak. At this point, the moderator will unmute the person. 
    2. The Chair will greet the person, ask them to state their first/last name, home address and limit their comments to 3 minutes.
    3. The moderator will mute the participant.
  • Phone-in audience:  To make a public comment, press *9 to raise your hand.   
    1. The Chair will announce that we have reached our public comments section.  At this point, the moderator will unmute the person. 
    2. The Chair will ask the moderator to announce the first person who wishes to speak.
    3. The Chair will greet the person, ask them to state their first/last name, home address and limit their comments to 3 minutes.
    4. The moderator will mute the participant.
• NOTE: We will complete steps 2-4 until all public comments have been heard.

If you would like to contact a member of the Tawas Police Authority about any matter, on the agenda or otherwise, please do so via the email addresses below prior to the meeting:

• Chair, Annge Horning:  ahorning@tawascity.org
• Vice-Chair, Brent Barringer:  bbarringer@easttawas.com
• Tawas City Representative, Ken Cook:  kenbcook@gmail.com
• East Tawas Representative, Lisa Bolen:  lbolen@easttawas.com
• Deputy Clerk/Treasurer, Nicole Jakobi:  njakobi@tawascity.org

The Tawas Police Authority will provide reasonable auxiliary aids as needed such as Closed Captioning. If other aids and services are needed for individuals with disabilities please contact the City Deputy Clerk/Treasurer, at njakobi@tawascity.org.  

Original source can be found here.