Comments on: How good is your County Website? http://localpolitics101.com/2009/07/how-good-is-your-county-website/ The Local Government Pontificator Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:45:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kristinpedia http://localpolitics101.com/2009/07/how-good-is-your-county-website/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Kristinpedia Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:39:23 +0000 http://localpolitics101.com/?p=530#comment-160 LZ, I have to say that why I don't agree with you on it not being valuable at all, I do see that there needs to be accountability for the information and an investigation on the web usability for the websites. Sunshine Review is just trying to take the first step towards disclosing information on the website instead of in a file at city hall. If you'd like to become involved and monitor your county on how the site is doing on SR, I'd love to chat with you. LZ, I have to say that why I don’t agree with you on it not being valuable at all, I do see that there needs to be accountability for the information and an investigation on the web usability for the websites. Sunshine Review is just trying to take the first step towards disclosing information on the website instead of in a file at city hall.

If you’d like to become involved and monitor your county on how the site is doing on SR, I’d love to chat with you.

]]> By: LZ http://localpolitics101.com/2009/07/how-good-is-your-county-website/comment-page-1/#comment-159 LZ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:19:30 +0000 http://localpolitics101.com/?p=530#comment-159 For those of us who attend many meetings and get involved in local government, I suspect that we know this survey doesn't mean much. It doesn't tell you whether the website information is accurate nor do minutes tell you what really goes on in these meetings. Last summer, attorneys identified over 60 discrepancies between Sawyer County's website version of its zoning ordinance and the official ordinance. Most government websites have a CYA disclaimer that the information may not be accurate. This doesn't matter much in Sawyer County, where county officals and supervisors dosn't follow the rules and only selectively enforce them on the public. Anyone who uses websites for other local governments in NW WI can likely come up with numerous examples of areas where websites need to be improved to be meaningful. Huge amounts of taxpapyer dollars are invested in IT systems that don't work. Or is that just an excuse for not providing the info? For those of us who attend many meetings and get involved in local government, I suspect that we know this survey doesn’t mean much. It doesn’t tell you whether the website information is accurate nor do minutes tell you what really goes on in these meetings. Last summer, attorneys identified over 60 discrepancies between Sawyer County’s website version of its zoning ordinance and the official ordinance. Most government websites have a CYA disclaimer that the information may not be accurate. This doesn’t matter much in Sawyer County, where county officals and supervisors dosn’t follow the rules and only selectively enforce them on the public. Anyone who uses websites for other local governments in NW WI can likely come up with numerous examples of areas where websites need to be improved to be meaningful. Huge amounts of taxpapyer dollars are invested in IT systems that don’t work. Or is that just an excuse for not providing the info?

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