Decision 11: Seven small placement questions

Settled 23 September 2026 (with one flag) All seven approved for now. Kalman flagged "Municipal Operations and Services" as odd because it reads like a department. We checked: it is not the department. Only 6 of its 121 items also carry the MOS department tag, and 88 have it as their only topic. It is a catch-all for town-operations material (fire departments, cemetery preservation, facility policies), so retiring it would strand 88 items. It stays where it is for now; see the note below for the follow-up.

The question

When the tree was approved on 31 August, a handful of individual placements were left open because they are editorial judgment calls, not structural ones. None blocks anything. Each is a one-line change.

The questions

Tag or node	Question	Recommendation
Social Media (11 items)	It sits under both "Governance & Roles" and "Technology & Info Security". Keep it in both?	Yes. It is a records-and-governance question and a technology one.
Municipal Assistance Center (30 items)	Retire the topic tag? The Department filter already covers MAC.	Retire it from the tree (already excluded); leave the tag on the content untouched.
Case Law (3 items), VLCT RFP (0 items)	Dormant tags: retire or leave?	Leave dormant and out of the tree; retire at launch if still unused.
First Amendment (17 items)	Placed under "Governance & Roles" with low confidence.	Keep there.
Surveys and Research (1 item)	Same.	Keep there.
Municipal Operations and Services (121 items)	Same; it is broad.	Keep under Governance & Roles; revisit if a "Municipal Operations" area is ever wanted.
Solid Waste (1 item)	Placed under "Infrastructure".	Keep there.

Follow-up on "Municipal Operations and Services"

Checked on 23 September against the draft database after Kalman's flag:

121items carry the tag (120 resources, 1 news)

6of those also carry the MOS department tag

88have this as their only topic

MOS= Municipal Operations Support, the department

So the tag and the department are different things that happen to share three words. The tag is a general "running a town" subject. Two things follow:

Do not retire it (unlike Municipal Assistance Center, which the Department filter really did duplicate). Retiring it would leave 88 items with no topic.
Consider giving it its own node, "Municipal Operations (general)" under Governance & Meetings, instead of hiding it inside "Governance & Roles". That is a one-node tree edit, reversible, and it would stop the name sitting next to "Governance". The hover glossary can also carry a one-line note that the tag is a subject, not the department.

Not applied; listed for VLCT's next pass.

What we asked for (answered above)

Approve all seven recommendations (recommended), or list the ones to change

If we hear nothing before the next build, we go with the recommendation: all seven stand. Reply to Kalman by email, or comment on the linked issue.

Related: #32.

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