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Question 2 Comments
Do citizens have a right to expect copies of municipal documents
within 24 hours of requesting them?
If citizens are expected to follow laws and codes those laws and codes
should be immediately accessible and free on line.
This would apply to only approved minutes. Other info which has been
voted on and approved by a groving body should be available within one
work day.
IF IT IS READILY AVAILABLE
Government should be at least as efficient as the private sector
Would be impossible to comply with this
Depending on the work load and the request, this could be really unreasonable.
Sometimes the documents have not been completed or corrected in 24 hours,
due to being busy or lack of staff, due to vacations etc.
24 hrs is too short a time to expect us to look for things that may
not be readily accessible
Many times the clerk must confer with corporate counsel on a public
records request. How many attorneys do you know that render decisions
w/in 24 hrs.? Also, no consideration is being given the other myrid
responsibilities of Clerk's which must be priortized at the descretion
of the Clerk.
Some documents are readily available in 24 hrs and some are not. It
also depends on the size of the office staff and the time they have
to research the information.
As a County and Records Access Office, many of our departments are located
offsite and time is required to forward the request to the appropriate
party, allow time to complete and time to return said request. This
legislation is assuming that any person's request has priority over
any other tasks being performed in the office which holds the records.
Unrealistic and unfair to office staff trying to meet day-to-day deadlines,
I'm sure that is true for both municipal and County records access officers.
72% voted Yes; 28% voted No
Question 3 Comments
Do citizens have a right to expect copies of municipal documents
within 24 hours of requesting them?
If citizens are expected to follow laws and codes those laws and codes
should be immediately accessible and free on line.
This would apply to only approved minutes. Other info which has been
voted on and approved by a groving body should be available within one
work day.
IF IT IS READILY AVAILABLE
Government should be at least as efficient as the private sector
Would be impossible to comply with this
Depending on the work load and the request, this could be really unreasonable.
Sometimes the documents have not been completed or corrected in 24 hours,
due to being busy or lack of staff, due to vacations etc.
24 hrs is too short a time to expect us to look for things that may
not be readily accessible
Many times the clerk must confer with corporate counsel on a public
records request. How many attorneys do you know that render decisions
w/in 24 hrs.? Also, no consideration is being given the other myrid
responsibilities of Clerk's which must be priortized at the descretion
of the Clerk.
Some documents are readily available in 24 hrs and some are not. It
also depends on the size of the office staff and the time they have
to research the information.
As a County and Records Access Office, many of our departments are located
offsite and time is required to forward the request to the appropriate
party, allow time to complete and time to return said request. This
legislation is assuming that any person's request has priority over
any other tasks being performed in the office which holds the records.
Unrealistic and unfair to office staff trying to meet day-to-day deadlines,
I'm sure that is true for both municipal and County records access officers.
81% voted Yes; 19% voted No
Question 12 Comments
Is the purchase of farmland a good use of municipal funds?
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We
need to protect our farms.
- Nicholas Cartabona
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The
land can then be kept in agricultural use and kept primarily as
open land. Leasing of the land should be encouraged and small
coverage buildings should be allowed for sale and/or processing
of agricultural products or similar products. Check out the agricultural
incubator idea at Benningtonbanner.com, on 3/27/03.
- Liz Axelson
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Any
type of land that doesn't have houses on it is a good use of funds
for a municipality to purchase because land is the only lasting
entity. And providing public land enables the use for all and
not for the few who have acquired wealth.
- Anonymous
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Only
if it is going to be used to preserve open space or to be utilized
as park land. Not to be bought for municipal housing.
- Jean Kuc, City Clerk
Rahway, New Jersey
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While
development is important to the fiscal health of a community,
maintaining areas of natural preservation is just as important
in relation to addressing its physical, ecological and economic
health as well.
- Anonymous
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Among
other benefits it save vastly more than the original costs in
less school and other municiple services necessary.
- Syma Gerard
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Need
to protect water resources; productive agricultural soils; minimize
sprawl.
- 'ppregmon'
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88% voted Yes; 12% voted No
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