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County unveils online document manager CivicClerk will provide public meeting agendas and minutes BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Coding is the process used to instruct a computer what functions to carry out, and is necessary for many everyday household items, phones, medical research, energy and public safety.
Elbert County revealed its new document and agenda management system, CivicClerk, in an effort to provide residents with up-to-date information through the county’s website. The new system makes meeting agendas and minutes available for viewing, a task the county has been working on since the fall of this year. “This is going to be a terrific tool,” Elbert County Clerk and Recorder Dallas Schroeder said during a recent BOCC meeting. “There are going to be a lot of positive things going through the system.” Individual departments and commissioners are responsible for updating the information in CivicClerk, and according to Schroeder, they will be held accountable for distributing information to residents. The system allows residents to sign up for an email notification when new documents become available. This is the first time Elbert County has used a system like this, according to Schroeder, and the staff and department heads have had positive reviews of CivicClerk. “We can use it internally, and that’s really a great feature,” said Schroeder. “Before the Dec. 5 meeting, we had a question, so I sent it to the department head and within 30 seconds I had a reply.” Residents of Elbert County have expressed concerns regarding the lack of transparency of goings-on within the county, including the inability to view agendas and minutes from public meetings. More than 600 residents responded to the county’s Citizen Engagement Survey this spring, which included requests for resident thoughts on Elbert County government and elected officials.
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Friends Arwyn Moyes, 7, right, and Evelyn Erickson, 7, spent the evening learning about robots and computer coding during Elizabeth High School’s first Hour of Code event Dec. 12. PHOTOS BY TABATHA STEWART
Learning the language of
computers
Hour of Code event concludes weeklong learning focus BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Nearly 100 parents and students from the Elizabeth School District showed up for Elizabeth High School’s first annual “Hour of Code” event Dec. 12, where
Garret Baird, 3, chases his younger brother Connor, 2, and sister Katelyn, 5, with a robot ball during the Hour of Code at Elizabeth High School.
they spent the evening playing with robots, learning about computer coding, and writing code themselves. The event is part of a national movement to help expose children, some as young as preschoolers, to the language of coding.
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