Times: Hercules resident finds city transparency still lacking
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 12 April 2010 — 1 comment below »
If you have the time during the day, do what Hercules resident Dan Romero is doing — dropping-in on the subcommittee meetings, which is how the City Council does its business these days and is an affront to open meeting laws (no minutes are kept)… “When Dan Romero showed up at 10 a.m. Wednesday — the meeting time listed on the city Web site’s calendar — he learned that it had taken place the previous day, just an hour after the end of another panel meeting that he attended. At Tuesday’s first meeting, of the Transportation and Housing Committee and the Business Development Subcommittee at 10 a.m., nobody announced that the Finance Subcommittee would meet that afternoon instead of the next day. Also, housing-related printed materials distributed to the panelists and staff were not made available to the public or the media.”
By the way, is Dan Romero running for City Council?
I’m a big fan of sunshine. But to now learn of this. This is very troubling for the Great City of Hercules and for me, where I believed I was making my happy home. Thank you for your good deeds, Mr. Dan Romero.