Washtenaw: Transparency

On her blog All Politics Is Local, Washtenaw County commissioner Kristin Judge asks readers to weigh in on the county’s transparency initiative – Open Book eWashtenaw – which she helped spearhead. She writes: “In public meetings, my colleagues have expressed concerns about the number of hits the website gets and the number of staff hours spent setting it up. Once the initial work is done, it is important to understand that updates to the site will be done automatically by computers. The costs to create the site have been only staff and commissioner time. If you speak to the staff that has been involved, I am certain they would agree it has been time well spent.” [Source]