Toronto city councillors are set to make hybrid public meetings permanent.
Councillors have been participating in virtual council meetings—in one form or another—since April 2020 as the pandemic was ramping up across the country.
As city buildings reopened after pandemic lockup, officials adopted a hybrid meeting model “to ensure that meeting participants have an equitable experience regardless of their method of participation.” The report says that regardless of council’s decisions, they should allow electronic participation to occur during a declared emergency.
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