Anonymous message received on Thursday, July 5, 2007.
As of 4:30 p.m., Thursday, July 5th, the minutes for the June 11th meeting are not on the City of DeKalb web site in violation of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. City Clerk Donna Johnson has seven days to make approved meeting minutes available to the public, and if a city has a web site, that includes posting them on the web, too.
Please refer to: (5 ILCS 120/2.06) (from Ch. 102, par. 42.06), Sec. 2.06. Minutes, 3 (b) at the Text of Statute link at:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/government/open_meetings.html
Attorney General Lisa Madigan's Office would be happy to provide training on both the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act as described here:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/government/pac_training.html
Also, Steve Kapitan complained about Johnson's minutes during the interchange with Steve Irving at the meeting on February 26th. He was pretty steamed about it. Kapitan questioned what Johnson wrote down as minutes and he did not like what was written about him in the minutes for the February 12th meeting. When questioned, Johnson replied that she only writes down a summary of what she heard.
As of 4:30 p.m., Thursday, July 5th, the minutes for the June 11th meeting are not on the City of DeKalb web site in violation of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. City Clerk Donna Johnson has seven days to make approved meeting minutes available to the public, and if a city has a web site, that includes posting them on the web, too.
Please refer to: (5 ILCS 120/2.06) (from Ch. 102, par. 42.06), Sec. 2.06. Minutes, 3 (b) at the Text of Statute link at:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/government/open_meetings.html
Attorney General Lisa Madigan's Office would be happy to provide training on both the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act as described here:
http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/government/pac_training.html
Also, Steve Kapitan complained about Johnson's minutes during the interchange with Steve Irving at the meeting on February 26th. He was pretty steamed about it. Kapitan questioned what Johnson wrote down as minutes and he did not like what was written about him in the minutes for the February 12th meeting. When questioned, Johnson replied that she only writes down a summary of what she heard.
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For as much money the taxpapers plunk down to run the city and for all of the technology upgrades, something simple like getting the minutes online is somehow, un-possible? I bet Johnson is not Web savvy enough to post the minutes herself but she needs to fork them over to the Webmaster. The agendas made it from Mark the City Manager's Office to the Web a long time ago so the Webmaster was around the time they were due to be posted on the site as required by law, as someone pointed out. So we know there cannot be a the Webmaster was on vacation for three weeks excuse.
Any bets on when/if the June 11th minutes will be on the city Website?
And these are the same people who want NIU to come in and give free wifi downtown?
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