More effective meetings

I attended the Nov. 8 town council meeting. There was a lot on the agenda, including proposed changes to the municipal code. I would like to suggest that in the future when there are detailed material to present and discuss, especially when language precision is important, such as amending code language, using a screen and Power Point or similar desktop publishing software that has redline and strikeout functions. 

There were several instances of council members having difficulty tracking the changes that the planner was discussing, even though they may have had electronic versions on their laptops. And the planner was frequently thumbing through papers to find the code language or amendments under discussion. 

This may just have been an inconvenience for the council and the planner, but it put the interested public at a serious disadvantage in understanding the discussion and the decisions.

Frankly, it seemed unnecessary, as serious communication tools have been readily available for decades.

Bob Raymond

La Conner