From Sunshine Review
Ann Arbor is a city in Michigan. . It is the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan.
[edit] Website evaluation
[edit] The good
- Budgets are available online. [1]
- Contact information for elected officials. Contact info includes phone numbers and photographs.[2]
- Property taxes and income taxes[3]
- Forms and applications for zoning [4]
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports are available. [5]
- Information about requesting public records.[6]
- Contracts and bid information is online. [7]
- Meeting agendas and minutes are available for City Council; agendas include full board packets, and council minutes includes video.[8]
[edit] The bad
- Lobbying affiliations are not listed. The city is a member of the Michigan Municipal League, but this is not made evident.
- Contact information for administrative officials is incomplete. Individual departments have contact lists in multiple formats, but there is no comprehensive city-wide administrative staff directory.
- There are many citizen boards and commissions, and none have contact information listed.[9]
- There are many citizen boards and commissions, and not all of them use the same system for producing and reporting minutes; thus the official-looking meeting agenda calendar is incomplete.[10]
- Meeting minutes for the Historic District Commission, which regulates building permit approvals in historic districts, are not online.[11]
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