📜🖋 Municipal City Clerks Week is May 4-10! Pictured, Deputy City Clerk Toni Cone, Venice City Clerk Kelly Michaels, Records Clerk Tracey Smith, Recording Secretary Amanda Hawkins-Brown, and Deputy City Clerk Mercedes Barcia in records storage at City Hall. The logistical work of the City Clerk’s Office includes setting up schedules, assessing technology needs, testing audio and other meeting software systems, putting out notices, and planning for public attendance and engagement, which is all part of the magic that happens in advance. Post decision-making work involves implementing the Council’s legislation by taking steps to officially codify the decision as well as creating, disseminating and retaining the official record so that in the present and future, all individuals can know what decisions were made and the documentation behind those decisions. Other duties involve elections, creating the annual budgets for the Clerk and Council’s operational needs, county, state, and fede...