Rosemead agenda highlights
Here are the agenda highlights for Rosemead's City Council meeting on Tuesday.
---The city is purchasing four hybrid cars at $150,000 with AB 2766 funds - implemented to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.
----Go out to bid for companies that can get documents online. The council earlier this year approved $58,000 to purchase an electronic document management system.
----Change how the city prepares its minutes, and consider providing DVDs to the public. The city currently sells audio tapes at $5 each.
----The city will vote on appproving a $10,000 reward to people who have information on a murders that have occurred in the city.
----In closed session, there is a conference with labor negoitations with the Rosemead Employee Association.
Comments
If the new digital recording policy is approved, it will be another victory for open government.
The old majority didn't want anyone to see them at work. That's why they never approved any sort of video recording by the city and don't have any public access broadcast. You go to a city council meeting now, and it's like you're in a time warp. They rely on a thirty-year old analog cassette tape recorder sitting on the table. It's like they're using Jim Rockford's old answering machine to record their meetings. How ridiculous is that?
This is just another example of our new city council majority, dragging their paleolithic colleagues into the 21st Century.
Posted by: The Consequence | May 12, 2008 10:24 AM
Creating a digital document process will improve public access for the public as well as for the press.
And using state money to buy new hybrid vehicles is a no-brainer. We can retire older, more polluting, less efficient city motor pool vehicles. That means cleaner air for area residents and lower fuel costs to the city for years to come.
That's two more examples of the new city council majority helping to bring Rosemead into the 21st Century.
Posted by: The Consequence | May 12, 2008 3:38 PM
Well since you seem to have all the inside scope why does't the majority of three get rid of the city manager, assistants, department heads and everyone else in city hall. It is up the city managerans staff to keep up with modern technology. Just check the local cities around you. By the way we also have some nice new gagets call a lap top, cell phones, pogs and so many other wonderful goodies. Try them out. Maybe you will find something to entertain YOU!
Posted by: GET A LIFE!!! | May 12, 2008 7:15 PM
All those folks do what the council majority wants, and the old council majority didn't want to modernize. But I assume you already knew that, Pravda.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 13, 2008 10:37 AM
Of course all those folks do what the council majority wants. IF they didn't they would surely get the royal boot. Just count to three. I would certainly know who butters my bread...or not.
Posted by: Count to Three.1...2...3... | May 15, 2008 10:12 PM