Do you know what your City Counselor has done for the city lately? I know for a fact many of them are attending a meeting or an event or both multiple nights a week. Sadly, not everyone else is aware of how busy they are and what they do to help individuals or specific areas of town. I don’t specifically know who is meeting with whom, where or why but sometimes when I see them in the halls of City Hall they comment on their very booked schedule.
What if you are not a facebook friend or tweeter? How about a tiny five lines of a high point meeting in a newspaper? Back in the day, WICH/WCTY used to have a running report or commentary of what was happening about town. Anyone interested in producing a local cable television show with the stars being the mayor, city councilors, department heads, or committee chairpersons?
I am not asking for a report of names, dates and places or even a paragraph per council member. I am only suggesting a short column with some of the things they are involved in or meetings they have attended. Just the very high points. A communication of sorts with the people that elect them. A communication that tells me what is being worked on that benefits the City of Norwich.
But maybe its always been that way The Terre-Haute weekly express, 21 December 1870 — Page 1 wrote Judging from an incident mentioned in the Philadelphia Press, we conclude that the Yankee city of Norwich, Connecticut, is to be most heartily congratulated upon the truly meek and devotional aspect of her City Council chamber. So mild and loving is the character of their sessions that a youth out one night, in search of the Young Men’s Christian Association, stumbled into the chamber, though: as the desired place, and greeted the astounded body as “My dear brethren in the Lord,” utterly disconcerting their profound deliberations. Such a mistake does not seem likely to occur here, until lie Parke street controversy is settled.
Let’s change this. Let’s stop the secrecy. Let’s all start working together to make Norwich a place of communication. A place where people talk, and work together towards the creation of a future.
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