Two teensy weensy footnotes from Monday evening's City Council and Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority working session.
As the meeting was getting under way, Council President Burney read aloud a list of several items he said would be covered in the evening's meeting.
Councilor Mapp then asked if there was an agenda for the meeting (the one-page sheet prepared by the Clerk only noted this was a joint meeting and the public would be allowed to speak).
Council President Burney replied that that was what he had just read aloud, that he had emailed it to Mapp (and presumably the other Councilors) 'a week ago', and the only copy he had was the one he had printed out for himself.
Mapp then asked the Clerk if she had an agenda for the evening for the Council. She did not, other than what had been handed out.
I am concerned at the casual manner with which this was treated. Whether or not it is proper for the Council President to communicate the agenda to the Councilors by email, I am perplexed as to why it evidently was not communicated to the Clerk and ordered to be printed up as the agenda for the evening's meeting.
Whether or not the Open Public Meetings Act (the 'Sunshine Law') requires it, wouldn't it just make good sense, considering all the blather about 'transparency' that goes on around here?
My second teensy weensy footnote concerns the (sizable) 'black binder' to which PMUA counsel Leslie London referred in her remarks. It obviously contains tons of useful information about the PMUA. Information that is public record. Wouldn't it be nice if that were made available by the PMUA on its website? Without the public having to go to the effort of forcing the issue through OPRA requests.
What a great sign the PMUA had amended its high-and-mighty ways that would make!
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How about a copy or two of the "Black Binder" [and budget] on reserve in the Public Library for us 9-5 workers ??
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