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Mayor warns council about maintaining courtesy at meetings

As Council Member Al Robeck was interrogating Mayor Randy Wilson and City Administrator Mark Larson at Monday night’s Glencoe City Council on why he isn’t allowed to speak during periods allotted for public input, Wilson immediately took action.
He explained that the League of Minnesota Cities contacted him about how the Council has been conducting meetings. The League has offered free guidance to help resolve the issues and mentioned possible litigation if the Council can’t find improvement.
“We’re not going to snipe at each other anymore,” Wilson said, “If we’re getting offered free counseling from the League of Minnesota Cities, that’s a bit of a red flag.”
After coming to an understanding, the Council members moved into the meat of the meeting. Police Chief Jim Raiter took to the podium to suggest the adoption of a new social media policy, and Assistant City Administrator Dan Ehrke suggested changing the city liquor ordinance to allow for a microbrewery with a taproom. Both passed, with Robeck voting no to adopting the social media policy.
The new social media policy for the city is an addition to what it already has in place. As explained, the policy is primarily in place to manage city social media sites within boundaries set by the policy.
The policy defines social media as, but not limited to, social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and online dating services/mobile apps; blogs; social news sites such as Reddit and Buzzfeed; video and photo sharing sites such as YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, and Flickr; Wikis, or shared encyclopedias such as Wikipedia; an ever emerging list of new web-based platforms generally regarded as social media or having many of the same functions as those listed above.
“I don’t agree with some of this,” Robeck said. He asserted that this is only the beginning of a policy that ends up out of hand and that he’s seen and experienced it before. The policy, Robeck said, is restrictive of his rights, though he didn’t elaborate on which of his rights are impeded.
For more from the Glencoe City Council meeting, see the May 23 print edition of The Chronicle.