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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 24, 2015 Page 18 dangerously close to "Snap Chat" or other means of transitory correspondence that wasn't retained, causing her concern if posting on a city-related topic. Mr. Bowman clarified that on the discussions component, once closed, you could still access discussions after thefact. Councilmember McGehee asked that, on the home page, the language be changed to "...the City reserves the right at "its" sole discretion... rather than "our" sole discretion. Mayor Roe agreed there were a number of grammatical items he had for staff to follow-up on that he would provide off-line. While not seeing the need to edit comments, Councilmember McGehee did ex- press interest in a way to immediately remove particularly offensive or derogatory comments, whether short-term or not. Mr. Bowman concurred with that preference. Mayor Roe questioned if the desire was to embargo comments for a period of time or until their review. Councilmember McGehee opined she didn't see an initial problem as she didn't see an outpouring of such comments initially, but did foresee some caution need- ed editorially at the front end after launching the site to be sure there were no ob- viously issues. Mr. Bowman stated he didn't think that was possible the way things were set up with Granicus or the ability to moderate every comment before it went live; since the site was set up so that residents could have a discussion without the city in- volved. At the request of Mayor Roe, and based on the history of Granicus sites, Mr. Bowman advised that those types of concerns were not seen often, and with the City of Edina example had not been seen. However, since monitoring multiple accounts could become problematic, and this was an official city site not a standalone site that may be less official, Mr. Bowman recognized that personal at- tacks or offensive comments were always a possibility while not frequently found. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Bowman noted that if something was flagged as potentially inappropriate, it immediately came off line until reviewed by staff for its editorial content and would not be live or in the public domain until that re- view occurred.