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Meeting Minutes Map

Browse your area's government minutes by location
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Our city/county holds regular meetings. They publish the minutes as PDFs on the web, but unless you read them bimonthly, you'll probably miss decisions and changes that are important to you.

For example, the township managers in my area decided to make major changes to roads, signage, and creek flow without any kind of notification or input from those affected. The only way I could find out about these changes was to search every PDF from the last year for references to our street name, names of neighbors, and nearby businesses.

I propose a simple system officers at these meetings could use to indicate "affected areas" when discussing topics. Could be a single location, a center with a radius, or an irregular shape. You could then subscribe to an area or browse a map of discussion topics to quickly find anything relevant to your property, neighborhood, city, or township.

napoleonbag, Oct 27 2015

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       // you'll probably miss decisions and changes that are important to you //   

       ... which is deliberate. *They* don't want you to know about these things. Democracy is fine as long as you can keep voters and the General Public getting involved in it.
8th of 7, Oct 27 2015
  

       transparency [+]
Voice, Oct 28 2015
  

       At eight o'clock on Thursday morning Arthur didn't feel very good. He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash...   

       "People of Earth, your attention please," a voice said, and it was wonderful. Wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a brave man weep. "This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council," the voice continued. "As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less that two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."...   

       ..."What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven's sake mankind, it's only four light years away you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's your own lookout. "
pashute, Oct 28 2015
  
      
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