Berkeley Municipal Code Art. IV Public Records

A. The following shall be available through the City’s website and shall be available in written form in the City Clerk Department:

City Charter

Berkeley Municipal Code

General Plan and Area Plans

Zoning Ordinance

Landmarks Preservation Ordinance

Citizen’s Guide to Public Information

Records Retention Schedule

City Council Rules of Procedure

Commissioner’s Manual

Conflict of Interest Code

Statements of Economic Interest for filers under GC 87200

Agendas and Minutes of the meetings of all Legislative Bodies

Index of Regional Bodies on which the City is represented and the City Representatives who serve on them

B. All communications from the City Manager and department heads to other agencies on behalf of the City shall be available through the City’s website at the same time they are provided to members of the City Council. (Ord. 7166-NS § 1 (part), 2011)

Any gift of funds, goods, or services worth more than $1000 in aggregate, which may be accepted or collected by the City or any of its functionaries or Legislative Bodies, for the purpose of carrying out or assisting any City function, shall be disclosed and approved on the Agenda of a regular Meeting of the City Council. (Ord. 7166-NS § 1 (part), 2011)

Large published documents produced by or on behalf of the City, such as City Budgets and environmental impact reports or statements prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), shall be available through the City’s website and made available at designated City offices with copies available for borrowing by the public at the Berkeley Central Public Library. (Ord. 7166-NS § 1 (part), 2011)

A. To provide for the accessibility of electronic information on the City’s website, the City shall:

1. Meet or exceed the guidelines for accessibility specified by the Federal General Services Administration pursuant to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d) as it may be amended from time to time.

2. When feasible within resource constraints, use open, non-proprietary, standards-based data formats on public facing information systems. When platform-specific formats must be used, provide an alternate format or a viewer to consume the file types.

3. Make audio and video available for both download and streaming using open, cross-platform, standards-based formats, accessible by a broad range of computer operating systems and portable devices.

4. When feasible within resource constraints, avoid web content types that are not compatible across browsers (such as Flash).

5. Make substantive website changes trackable in an open, cross-platform, standards-based journal format (such as RSS).

B. Nothing in this Section shall require programming a computer to respond to a request for information or to release information that would violate a licensing agreement or copyright law. (Ord. 7166-NS § 1 (part), 2011)

All documents submitted to the City Council, including but not limited to, the Agenda and Agenda Packet, communications, and any documents submitted at a meeting of that body, shall be available through the City’s website no later than the close of business the following business day after the meeting for which the documents were submitted. (Ord. 7166-NS § 1 (part), 2011)