The Public Information Webpage has a few new items on it now. Once I got all of the materials sorted, scanned, converted to searchable .pdf files and uploaded , I finally had an opportunity to really look at possible uses of that information. I decided that putting the Town Council Minutes only in files (broken down by years only because of the size of the files) was the first thing I wanted to do.
I have now completed that process and those files are available for use.I set up a test run to see how useful these items might be if an individual was looking for a particular topice or name. Since recent blog comments have focused on the Aquatic Center, guess what topic I picked. I did a search in all of the files, then a simple copy and past to a working document file. Then, it was just a matter of converting to .pdf and uploading. That file (which I call
The Town Council History of the Aquatic Center is also available online. The first several paragraphs include information on some of the problems I had and what I did to correct them.
I will say that having all of the information that one would have legal access to as a citizen from the Town Council Minutes concerning the Aquatic Center gives a lot of insights into the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the evolution of such a big project.
Try using the files about subjects you are interested in and let me know how it works for you.
As soon as I receive the rest of the Planning Commission Minutes from the Town, I will be doing the same with those Minutes as well as collections of themes such as Ordinance/Zoning changes, Rezoning, and Conditional Use Permits.
If there is a particular topic that you are interested in, but you do not feel comfortable doing this yourself, let me know and I will see what I can do to help.