Colorado Hometown Weekly: After months of staffing challenges amid vacancies in the city clerk’s office, Louisville is making progress catching up on a monthslong backlog of City Council meeting records. A city spokesperson says Louisville will implement new technology — an effort in the works for over two years — that would help prevent future backlogs.

The clerk’s office is “working toward being fully staffed, and creating and publishing our backlog of minutes is a priority,” said Grace Johnson, Louisville city spokesperson. “We are actively working on this.”

“Minutes” are the official written record of a public meeting that summarize the actions, and sometimes the key discussions, that took place. In the case of City Council meetings, common practice is for the minutes to be recorded and the council to approve the minutes at the following meeting, according to Jeffrey Roberts, director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.

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