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Council Member Brewer proposes student project to engage with City Council
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Council Member Gale Brewer suggests a student project to engage with City Council members and assess their responsiveness to student inquiries.
- Brewer proposes that students contact all council members for a school project and keep track of who responds.
- She suggests publishing the results of this outreach to encourage council member engagement with students.
- The proposal aims to address the issue of some council members not responding to student requests for interviews or information.
- This project is presented as a way to potentially increase civic engagement and hold elected officials accountable for their interaction with students.
Gale Brewer
0:56:24
I think it would
Erik Bottcher
0:56:25
be great to have the students on mass, call counsel, send me whatever they want, on a student project, and then keep tally who responds and who doesn't, and then publish it.
Gale Brewer
0:56:36
You get some actions because it is that's what we're supposed to be doing because it's not a legitimate reporter or something that is
Erik Bottcher
0:56:45
they will not respond.
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So I suggest that as a project.
0:56:48
Thank you.