It's no secret that I'm a huge critic of the Salisbury City Council. There is one thing Salisbury Council does that is heads and tails above their county counterpart - providing information to the public about their meetings. When the agenda for each meeting is posted online, City Clerk Brenda Colegrove also includes a copy (in PDF format) of the council's briefing book. Interested citizens can download it and view information that is far more in-depth than that provided on the agenda.
A case in point is tomorrow's Wicomico County Council meeting. In a far too rare evening meeting, the County Council will hold a public hearing the proposed capital budget. How can citizens intelligently comment on something as large and complicated as a capital budget without having ready access to it. That information may be available on the county's website (somewhere), but I didn't find it. Why not make the briefing books easily accessible to the public?
cross posted on Delmarva Dealings
Technorati Tags: Maryland, Wicomico, politics, Wicomico politics, fiscal policy
A case in point is tomorrow's Wicomico County Council meeting. In a far too rare evening meeting, the County Council will hold a public hearing the proposed capital budget. How can citizens intelligently comment on something as large and complicated as a capital budget without having ready access to it. That information may be available on the county's website (somewhere), but I didn't find it. Why not make the briefing books easily accessible to the public?
cross posted on Delmarva Dealings
Technorati Tags: Maryland, Wicomico, politics, Wicomico politics, fiscal policy
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