Evansville DMD has plead impossible to comply to the CCO request for the minutes of the March 1, 2012 meeting of the Economic Development Loan Committee when the $200,000 loan for Earthcare Energy was approved. DMD asserts in the letter on the link below that they “cannot” provide the minutes because they have not been approved even though nearly three months have passed. DMD also states that they do not keep audio files of such meetings.
why not call the Indiana Public Access Counselor at 317-234-0906, and get their opinion as to whether this timeframe is too long for withholding approval of minutes such that they are in limbo and not a public record ? Also, I have worked with Shannon, and she is very easy to get along with. I urge you to call, and please publish the results of the phone call.
Shannon is great, but she is simply the scapegoat. Her job is to do what she is told. Having worked at DMD myself, the only meetings they actually record, to my knowledge, was ERC and Historic Preservation Commission. Other agencies within DMD, such as EBC, deliberately did not record for this very reason: To have no evidence.
Evansville is completely paralyzed by stupidity. We can run headfirst into stupid things but can’t vote on minutes in 3 months. It is bad enough that we can’t mow the grass in the parks but come on people. This is either intentional or pure folly.
How would the minutes ever get approved? This loan committee does not have regularly scheduled meetings. Its members were hastily pulled together, appointed, and sworn in for the specific purpose of passing the $200,000. loan. I doubt that they have another meeting scheduled, and will not have another one until their “services” are needed for the next big deal.
You are just getting the old DMD run-around.
Sunshine or Colonoscopy:
http://www.economist.com/node/21538774
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We know. Good artcle from the Economist. Thanks.
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/City_websites
So is that grade of D what Evansville’s website scored?
I put this up so everyone could see what a template for an effective and transparent city website should entail.
I am not sure what the sidebar information is referring to, as there is no city selected.
There is no reason why Evansville should not go the way of Albuquerque and start moving more and more information to its website on an expedited agenda.
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Press, exactly right. And when they meet next in 2020 with all new members, good luck with getting the old still untyped minutes approved.
press, outstanding article. The Mayor of Albuquerque ” gets it”. Wish our Mayor did. Thanks for the research !
The Indiana Public Access Office has ruled in the past that an individual may request and receive an unedited tape or CD recording of the activities that took place during a public meeting PRIOR to minutes being written and approved by that body. There may be a nominal fee for copying and materials needed.
If they cannot make a copy of the recorded information for you, you are entitled to bring your own copying materials to their location at a convenient time and either copy the material yourself or, simply sit in their office and listen to their copy.
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