Jim Willis

One of our neighborhood volunteers was looking to attend tonight's Red Bank council meeting. The boro has a useful new website but still, with less than 12 hours to go until the meeting starts there is no agenda posted.
This, on the same day that the White House issues its new Open Government Directive that mandates transparency via technology from all Federal agencies. How is it that a massive machine like the Federal government can set such lofty expectations as - -

d. Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets (see attachment section 3.a.i) and register those data sets via Data.gov. These must be data sets not previously available online or in a downloadable format.

e. Within 60 days, each agency shall create an Open Government Webpage located at http://www.[agency].gov/open to serve as the gateway for agency activities related to the Open Government Directive and shall maintain and update that webpage in a timely fashion.

- - but here in a town of 15k people with a website that is costing ~$25k per year we don't have council meeting agendas posted online before the council meeting? 

Read the directive here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/08/promoting-transparency-government