Today is a bad example of good/open government.
Right now, I am sitting on the floor in the hallway outside of Room LL-130 in the Municipal Building. [Side note: The elevator is broken and the doors on the lower level were locked when I got here. Luckily, I walked around the building and down the steps to the meeting, however, not everyone is able to do that.] I am joined by two city staff and County Board Supervisor John Hendrick in the hallway and we are listening to presentations about the differences between the East Washington BUILD plan, the Tenney Lapham Plan, the East Rail Corridor Plan and the Yahara River Parkway plan. The room is packed with about 30 people and after about an hour, several people are waiting who haven’t even been able to speak yet and I and Ald. Rummel have to leave without hearing what they came to say.
I should be leaving any minute now to go to Allied Drive to hear a presentation to the tenants of several buildings out there that may or may not be losing their housing. The notice for that meeting went out on Friday. It’s almost as if the notice was given in a manner so that people wouldn’t get enough notice to show up.
Something is wrong with this picture. Can’t we do better? We should.
