Flint City Council Observation Report

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Introduction
For my project I visited the Flint City council to observe the process of the city meeting, there were six of my classmates present. I was the first one to arrive at the city hall. As everyone was arriving Kate Fields ward 4 introduced herself, and we identified as students from U of M Flint she shared that she is a professor at the University with a MSB program. Eric Mays from ward 1, introduced himself as well. There were about fifteen community members sitting along the wall of the room as well as my classmates and myself, total of attendance was 28 leaving maybe about five seats. This room was very small in size.
Body
The beginning of the meeting started with a call to order, then proceeded to the roll call of the board members.

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