Gee, does this happen here? It is Sunshine Week 2012. I had a hard time choosing which editorial cartoon to use from this site. http://www.sunshineweek.org/Toolkits/EditorialCartoons.aspx We all know how the school board president encourages phone conversations. I did see that the District website has finally updated the superintendent and board president monthly reports. Was it last week when I wrote that the latest reports were October 2011?
Sunshine Week 2012 is March 11 - March 17. The idea behind Sunshine Week is to promote an open government and freedom of information - our right to know. I have forms and procedures listed at http://www.lebocitizens.com/Lebo_Citizens/Right_to_Know.html If anyone needs help, email me at EGillen476@aol.com and I will walk you through the process.
Unfortunately, this law needs some refining, as seen here. PA Right To Know Law protects the crooks, not the people. There are some other ways around transparency, which our local government has figured out. A well known tactic is to phone or text. There is no way to enforce that. File a RTK asking about all the wonderful communication between the two taxing bodies, as reported by Josephine Posti, and you aren't going to come up with much. Why half the joint steering committee, I mean, the joint discussion committee, or whatever it is being called today, live across the street from each other. They can stop in the middle of Roycroft and have a meeting. I don't know what can be done to stop that, but it is what it is. Glad there is no baggage there.
The point to this thread is that it is our right to know what is going on in government. It doesn't stop there. We also have rights with the PA Public Utility Commission, OSHA, EPA, and other government agencies.
Happy Sunshine Week.
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