NCCO Takes a Step Towards Openness
From the article that DD linked to highlighting the Delaware Way this week, there was a small piece at the end noting a piece of good news:
There is now a Web page where users can read the text of legislation that has been introduced and tabled or referred to a board and not yet adopted.
You can see that here. Click on the links and you get a pdf with the text of the action, and I can’t tell how long this data stays posted. It’s pretty ugly, but it does the job and for that we congratulate the County for catching up to the General Assembly. Getting an RSS feed for proposed actions would be a nice touch, as would be a search function.
Next up — posting the recordings of Council meetings online. Or better, online streaming of the Council Meetings. But definitely posting up the legislative actions is a step in the right direction.
Tags: NCCo, Open Government
Good grief. This is worthy of applause? All introduced ordinances in Sussex are up on the web in minutes. Yep, the chicken farmers are ahead of the lawyers and bankers.
For NCCo it certainly is. These folks are routinely hostile to citizens seeing — even participating in — what its government is working on. Which tells you something about the usual pathetic nature of the NCCo Council posture towards the people who vote them in.
NCC employee salaries added to database:
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