Hey, welcome to my new Albany City Council blog! I’ll be posting my comments here about city council meetings and related topics. Because of the Brown Act, council members must be very careful about how they communicate with the public and other city council members. Council members are restricted to conducting the council’s business only at public meetings where the issues under discussion have been listed on an agenda available to the public.

For the most part, I will restrict my comments to meetings that have already occurred, and I will not allow reader comments. The Brown Act was passed before the era of the internet and social media, and expectations about sharing information are much different now. But we have to live with the rules. I will try to communicate as much information as I can.

I’ll write more soon on my thoughts on our first city council meeting. For now, here are the certified vote totals for the Albany City Council race:

NP – Peggy Thomsen	4060	22.00
NP – Peter Maass	3156	17.10
NP – Michael Barnes	2966	16.07
NP – Nick Pilch	2908	15.76
NP – Tod Abbott	2552	13.83
NP – Sheri Spellwoman	1672	9.06
NP – Ulan Mcknight	1089	5.90
Write-in	51	0.28