[Vision2020] Moscow Elected Officials and Commitment

[Tom Hansen]

The city council meets merely two evenings a MONTH for Christ's sake; the first and third Monday of each month (with adjustments for holidays)!  

You don't have to be an engineer to determine on which specific dates the council will meet and make plans accordingly.

The anticipated excuse of, "Attendance is reflected on the minutes of each council session," is lame.

If Councilman John Jones is up for reelection after completing a six-year "tour of duty", I find it extremely inconvenient to browse the minutes of the previous 144 council sessions just to see if Jones was in attendance, when the city can simply maintain an online tally.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



On Apr 18, 2012, at 8:47, Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not unreasonable for any elected city official to take some vacation time.
> 
> However, it is very reasonable to keep and make available on the web, the attendance data for all elected city officials and for all meetings for which they are obligated or expected to attend.
> 
> Without casting aspersions on anyone, my past experience with various local governments is that there are sometimes serious attendance abuses with sometimes serious consequences brought about by ignorance of the issues that might have been avoided had better attendance (physically and mentally) occurred. 
> 
> w.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Greetings Mayor Chaney and Moscow City Council members -
> 
> It is my understanding that Councilman Walter Steed could not participate in Monday night's city council session as he was away on vacation in Europe.
> 
> Elected city officials (regardless of which side of the political aisle) should be held into account for failing to fulfill their municipal obligations. Anything short of that merely encourages a lack of responsibility and commitment to the people of Moscow.
> 
> I suggest that the city, for the sake of its citizens, maintain a record of absences as a matter of public record, and be made publicly accessible online when each elected official is up for reelection.  This can be easily accomplished as an added "tally" under the city website heading "Meet the Council".
> 
> It's only right!
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
> 
> - Unknown
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