Cumberland County improves meeting notices

By |2014-07-31T07:47:04-05:00July 31, 2014|Categories: adequate public notice|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

One of the most common complaints I get from citizens in towns across Tennessee is that their public officials do not give them adequate notice of upcoming public meetings. It always surprises me to see this problem: County commissioners, utility boards or school boards who post a time and place for their meetings on a bulletin board in a government building, maybe on their website, maybe in their local newspaper, but  probably without an agenda, and most often without the agenda packet that contains all the background. How can we expect citizens to be interested in our government if we treat them like they have no interest? It's at the [...]