Below you will find links for this week’s Council Committees which are meeting on Monday at 5:30pm at the Newark City Building as well as the minutes for last week’s Full Council meeting. Please take note the continued absence of the most recent minutes or even an upcoming agenda for the Newark School Board. How hard can it be to publish these documents online for public review? Last Week’s Council Meeting Minutes This Week’s Agendas: Finance Capital Improvements Service Pers

This week city council will meet on Tuesday, due to the “President’s Day” holiday. You may find the following documents helpful: 2/13/17 Committee Meeting Minutes: Finance Capital Improvements Service Safety Street 2/21/17 Full Council Agenda An interesting note here: the itemization of the agenda has suddenly reappeared after having been absent since the beginning of the year. All I can say is “thank you”. It helps us, the people of Newark, to hold our elected officials acco

Here is the information for which you came: Minutes from full council meeting on the 6th Agendas for Council Committees Tonight: Finance, Capital Improvements, Service, Safety, and Street. One note about the recent council meeting. I don't know how I didn't realize it beforehand, but I noticed on my copy of that night's agenda the absence of the itemized spending measures. By that, I mean the annotation - for enhanced transparency - on resolutions affecting the appropriation/

Well, if the Newark Board of Education has been meeting or planning to meet since early January, it is a mystery to me. Reason being, that they haven’t updated their website to reflect as much. In fact, nothing on the Board website’s calendar has any meetings slated at all in the near future. I will try to keep everyone posted in the event that this changes. Likewise, the handling of internet-accessible documents for our city government are equally becoming increasingly unrel