In 2007, for reasons unknown, the City of Mt. Juliet took down its online archive of city Ordinances, Resolutions, and Minutes. In 2008, the scanned Ordinances and Resolutions (but not the Minutes) reappeared, now hosted on www.egovlink.com. But they were practically unusable without any index indicating the captions/subject matter. There are approximately 1500 ordinances in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Open Records’
February 23, 2009
City of Mt. Juliet keeping citizens in the dark
There are four basic categories of information related to city commission meetings that ALL city governments have an obligation to keep up to date and readily available to citizens:
Agendas
Full-text of Agenda Items (sometimes called “Commissioner Packets”)
Minutes of previous meetings
Video of previous meetings
The City Commission of Mt. Juliet will meet tonight, February 23rd, 2009.
The Agenda for [...]
September 16, 2008
The City of Mt. Juliet really doesn’t want citizens to request public records
Several months ago, in July, Butch Huber (aka Citizen Butch) made a request to the City of Mt. Juliet for the public records related to the city’s employee health insurance contracts.
Citizen Butch wanted to review the proposals that the City had received and read the correspondence (email and written) between the City and insurance agents [...]
September 12, 2008
New Permanent Pages
The persistent refusal of the City of Mt. Juliet to abide by the Tennessee Open Records law as well as the City Commission’s blithe persistence in refusing to deal with their laughable “ethics” code have both been commented on at Radio Free Mt. Juliet.
Both issues are important enough to merit their own permanent reference pages, [...]
September 8, 2008
Mt. Juliet’s City Manager and City Attorney and Police Chief
Were all spotted at a hearing of the Advisory Committee on Open Government last Friday, September 5th, 2008. The topic of the hearing? The new Public Records law passed by the legislature this year – and how much local governments should be allowed to charge citizens who have the temerity to request Open Records.
The City [...]
