The City of Methuen, for the third consecutive year, has been recognized by the Common Cause Campaign for Open Government with its e-government award. This award is given to communities that post all basic documents, such as agenda’s, minutes, by-laws, etc on line. Common Cause recognized 117 communities throughout Massachusetts for having websites that meet the basic criteria. But Methuen was one of only 49 communities that received the award “with distinction” From the Boston Globe:
In addition to the basic requirements, 49 cities and towns will be honored with e-Government Awards with Distinction for posting archived governing board agendas and minutes, zoning by-laws, school committee agendas and minutes, agendas and minutes for an additional board or committee, and a calendar with all public meetings.
My thanks to King Lough and John Molori for maintaining this award winning website, and performing all of these tasks in-house. Changing the city website to reflect a new era in governmental communication was a top priority of mine when I was elected. We will continue to look at ways to improve our ability to interact with our citizens, and make dealing with the City of Methuen an easier and consumer friendly experience.
Read the Globe story here.
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Kudos to you Your Honor. I still think you are one of the best mayors I have seen.
To bad you have Liberalits.
Jules
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Mayor Manzi:
Congrats on a job well done.
Gerard
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Congratulations your Honor for being a leader in Methuen’s road to transparency in government and for being recogtnized for it three years in a row by Common Cause. That Methuen has received this award with distinction is outstanding!!
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Now I’m confused! Internet good. TV Bad! No?
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Jim, you’re in a perpetual state of confusion.
Mayor, smartly done.
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Mr. Mayor:
Just adding my voice, well done to you and the IT team that makes it possible.
-FM
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Thank you all! And on an unrelated note I believe we are also making progress on the Patrizia insults Jim portion of the blog, as I did not have to edit out one obscenity. Incremental gains in this area show there may be hopes for “a two state solution”.
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5 …. 4 …. 3 …. 2 ….
-FM
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Fred,
The fuse is lit!
Bill
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To finish Peter Schilling’s song that Fred just HAD to go and start and which has been running through my confused mind since….
4…3….2…1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling calling home…
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Ohmigosh, I just found a picture of Jim as a child. He grew up to be a moron moonbat, BUT NO WONDER!
(click on picture to enlarge)
SLOW DOWN, JIMM-EY, SLOW DOWN!!
Never mind.
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Pat U really are starting to grow on me…like an internal hemorrhoid. How’s the view?
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Jim:
You have a talking hemorrhoid? Geezus, that must itch. Run down to the Walmart for some Preparation P!
And eat more fiber. Maybe a whole newspaper. It might learn something on the way by. Couldn’t hurt.
-FM
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Fred,
You are a FUNNY man! 🙂
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Jim:
I had a serious scare once just like yours: thought it was Ann Coulter. Turned out to be nothing, though. It was a tense couple of days, let me tell you.
-FM
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Yeah Fred, as a reformed Bill O’Reilly follower, I know how scary hemorrhoids like that can be. Once they latch, it’s hard to get them to let go…in fact, now that I think about it, it’s hard to go at all…
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