The Clock struck thirteen last night and Council told staff to prepare a plan for an RFP for an open source online petitioning system. 

The eSign alternative was costly - $21,000 one-time charge plus $1,500 for each new initiative campaign. And I pointed out that since it's proprietary software there's no way to know if they're siphoning off petition signers data and selling it, for example. Unlike open source software which anyone can inspect to see what it does. 

It was probably the most bizarre council meeting I've seen and I've been to likely almost 200 in 40 years here. Here's the video:

https://bouldercolorado.gov/city-council/watch-council-meetings

I can no longer find a way to get a unique URL for a city video, but it's the top one on the list now. Is it incompetence or are they trying to hide the record of the business of the city? 

It starts with a memorial for Daily Camera editor Kevin Kaufman, and then 45 minutes of the police chief speaking and being "grilled" (kind Boulder Style)  about a racist cop incident, with probably 50 young people in the back of the audience clicking garbage pick up tools in the air, to protest the cops drawing guns on a young black man picking up garbage in his own yard, now a viral video, no doubt. He's a Naropa student and the President of Naropa spoke in protest. 

Some of the same young people tongue lashed Council for their deadly homeless policies and I told them they were going to fight and they were going to win. Council delayed the hearing on spending another $900,000 a year on enforcement.