CityWise

All city agencies and committees hold public meetings, publish agendas, minutes and, in some cases, recordings.  Some agencies and committees hold meetings on a regular schedule, others hold meetings as needed.  The city also closes all offices for holidays and currently every other Friday.  There is currently no central calendar that contains all of this information with the ability to add specific meetings to residents personal calendars.

City agency agendas can be long and/or include multiple attachments; especially city council, lodi improvement committee, the planning commission and the site plan and architecture commission.   Site search on lodi.gov is not robust enough to provide a good view of document content across council and committees agendas and attachments. Major search engines aren't indexing lodi.gov agendas and attachments either.  Many citizens don't have the time to read agendas and attachments and so don't engage with council or city committees to express their options or gain an understanding of city plans, priorities and budgets.

CityWise: Drive awareness of and engagement with Lodi City council and committees through technology innovation; Calendar with event/invites, Google-like Search across all agencies and agendas and Intelligent PDF Documents

An online calendar of Lodi City Council and Committee Meetings with Week, Month and Agenda Views.

Clicking on meeting provides information about the meeting location, the agency holding the meeting and a link to the meeting agenda — if available. It also enables you to email meeting information to yourself so you can add the meeting to your personal calendar or check back when the agenda is published to view the agenda and attachment summaries.

A Google-like search across all published agendas from Lodi City Council and Committees. You can narrow your search to just City Council or a City Committee or search across a few or all…

An enhanced viewer for PDF Documents published by Lodi City Council and Committees that includes summaries of the agenda and all attachments. The viewer also hosts Lodi 411’s AI Bot that can answer your questions about the document viewed, the current Agency or across all Agencies and published documents