Transparency and celebrating citizen participation –John S. Quarterman

I thank County Clerk Paige Dukes for making the text of the new Policies and Procedures available, and refer it to as as sterling example of local government transparency. Then I remark that I can’t be quite as complimentary about their content, which is in some parts too vague and in others too strict. I offer to provide written comments. And in my personal opinion local government should not suppress but rather celebrate citizen participation!


Video by Gretchen Quarterman
of the regular meeting of the Lowndes County Commission, 25 Jan 2011
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

Since at least one commissioner did ask for them, I sent them the written comments yesterday; they will follow in a separate post.

-jsq