Dutchess County, New York

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Dutchess County is one of 62 counties in New York. Its county seat is Poughkeepsie. The United States Census Bureau estimates the county's population as of July 1, 2007 as 292,706.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of New York county websites

[edit] The good

  • Budget is available.[1]
  • Active commodity contracts are posted.[2]
  • Audits are available.[3]
  • County legislators are listed with contact information.[4] Meeting schedule[5] and recent agendas/resolutions posted.[6]
  • Sales tax rate posted.[7] Property tax info provided.[8]
  • Zoning information provided.[9]
  • Administrative officials listed with contact information.[10]

[edit] The bad

The Poughkeepsie Journal conducted its own analysis of the Dutchess County website in early March 2009. According to the local newspaper's analysis, "the Dutchess County Web site offers a plethora of reports for many different departments, provides press releases and shows video archives of Legislature meetings. The county Office of Information Systems has worked to make the Web site user-friendly and easy to navigate, spokeswoman Colleen Pillus said. Pillus said County Executive William Steinhaus' philosophy for the Web site is it should serve as an information portal to help residents find the services or information they need."[12],[13]

[edit] Municipalities in Dutchess County

The Poughkeepsie Journal conducted an analysis of the websites of the 22 towns and cities in Dutchess County in early 2009 to see what types of information can be found on the websites. This analysis "noted a wide disparity among the offerings. At bare minimum, all the Web sites should have clear contact information, meeting schedules, budgets, downloadable forms, proposals, meeting minutes and community links." According to the analysis, 14 of the municipalities with websites did not post a budget.[14],[12]

[edit] Cities

[edit] Towns

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Budget
  2. ↑ Commodity contracts
  3. ↑ Audits
  4. ↑ Legislators
  5. ↑ Meetings
  6. ↑ Agendas
  7. ↑ Sales Tax
  8. ↑ Property Tax
  9. ↑ Zoning
  10. ↑ Departments
  11. ↑ Records Request
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Poughkeepsie Journal, "Web sites are big help to good government", March 24, 2009
  13. ↑ Poughkeepsie Journal, "Dutchess towns' web content has grown, but gaps remain", March 15, 2009
  14. ↑ Poughkeepsie Journal, "Web sites are big help to good government", March 24, 2009
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