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What a concept: Holding City Council meetings when normal people can attend
By adamg on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 9:34pm
Open Media Boston reports that new City Council President Mike Ross wants to hold at least some council meetings in Boston neighborhoods - and at night - so that the sort of people who don't get paid to attend meetings in the middle of the day can see their elected officials in action.
Ross himself discusses what he wants to do with his yearlong term (beyond promoting world peace, of course), such as:
I will require that all council documents be made available electronically on the City of Boston website. It is time for the City Council to enter the 21st century, and ensure that all documents, legislation, and resolutions be fully accessible online.
Hmm, what about those minutes that city lawyers say can't legally be put online?
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Records management. Boston City Council offices.
Records management and the hundred or so staff of our municipal Boston City Council offices, see also http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcrmu/rmuidx.htm
http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Good for him, this is
Good for him, this is nothing new for the dozens of cities and towns that have part time legislators making it impossible for them to have day meetings anyway. Not that anyone is ever at the meetings Ive been to in a dozen or so of these cities/towns but at least people have the option in those towns... I also like the concept of occasional meetings in districts, especially if the matters being discussed involve that district. Thats actually how judges used to operate, they would go from town to town lol.