Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Openly providing public information or finally "giving in"?

Read this blog and watch the video provided by The Woodlands Monitor.
It's amazing how the Woodlands Community Service Corporation (WCSC) fights, with residents dollars, to keep public information out of residents hands. It's also amazing how the WCSC will act like it's business as usual when they finally do what's right.
Here is an example from the email Ms. Connell sent out to the media. Note: CATW is a member of the media, even provided credentials that no other journalist was required to provide, and Ms. Connell did not send to CATW.

"Agenda packets for board and committee meetings are now available online, accessible through a link near the top of the respective agenda page, once the packets are ready. Agendas are still posted 72 hours in advance of the meeting; agenda packets will be posted when they are ready, according to the policy."

I also noticed that there was no news or press releases from 5-21 to 6-11 of 2007. With all that is going on in The Woodlands there should be daily updates. Look at the pattern in release dates and let us know if you think it looks like they are working around local papers publishing dates.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the picture. Looking at the sites it looks like there's a lot of time spent on fluff. what is a fluff monkey?

CAofTW said...

We received this from a reliable source:
"Mary mainly posts press releases on Thursdays to meet the printing deadlines of the Villager and Chronicle. She will post outside of that timeframe only on important issues. She is the one who decides if it is 'important'."