TV Guide for Council TV

For those of you who have tuned in to Grand Forks City Council meetings at 7 p.m. Mondays on Channel 2 and couldn't figure out what the heck is going on, here's some basic info you could get from the city Web site:

* Click here for the meeting agenda.

* Click here for the packet that has all the background information from city staff. Unfortunately, the city does not have archived packets online.

* Click here for a list of meetings during the week. Some common abbreviations you might see include JDA -- short for Jobs Development Authority -- and TAC -- short for Technical Advisory Committee.

* I'd recommend you click here for agendas from council working sessions, a kind of committee meeting, but I notice that the agenda from the last meeting still isn't available. So check the schedule first if you want to know if there's going to be a work session.

* If you see something you don't like, I suppose you could contact your City Council member. How do you know which one is yours? Click here for the ward map.

Update 11:08 p.m., 5/12/06: I neglected East Grand Forks, which has its own Web resources. Here's a few:

* Click here for the agendas. Note that Eastside has a weird meeting schedule. Council meetings are at 7 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of the month and Committee of the Whole -- or "work sessions" as they like to call them -- are at 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of the month.

* Click here for the meeting minutes.

* Click here to find out who your council members are. If you need to figure out which ward you live in, well, looks like you're out of luck. The city did have a ward map up during the last election but I can't find it now.

Photos all came from Wikipedia.