A recent example is a good place to start.
1. Make sure the notice for the public hearing doesn’t include the information the public is supposed to be commenting or, or where to find it.
Here’s how you would have to get to the information after seeing the notice.
A. See the press release on the city’s website or,
B. Read about it in the Cap Times. Then,
C. Go to the Water Utility website and then,
D. Find where on the website the information is.
E. Then, read the information. There’s the plan and now the power point.
If it takes 5 or 6 steps to get to the information, then you have to get to the meeting, how many people do you think showed up? And what conclusion do you think the people holding the public hearing will come up with. Likely, that the public isn’t interested. Well, perhaps not that interested to go through all that work to get to the point where they even find out what they are commenting on. It shouldn’t be this hard folks! Seriously, why not just attach the information to the original notice and cut out all the bullshit?
