Well, here’s the beginning of a costly and silly experiment.
For those who don’t know, I’ve decided to try and file open record requests for every meeting minute, agenda item and extraneous piece of ASM info that happens to pop into my head here. The next post will start things off with a bit of chair reports and a documentation of what exactly ASM has on their website right now.
The hope is that this blog spurs on ASM to, well, do it themselves. In the event that they don’t, I’ll try and get my hands on the documents they should be displaying on their site and hope they eventually catch up. Because if they don’t, I’ll be out of a lot of money by the time the semester ends.
I’ll also contribute some of my own commentary on ASM’s usual workings, hopefully live blogging whatever meetings I can get myself to. (Now don’t expect me to hit each one, I am often chained to the desk at the Herald when these things happen.) If you’ve got any insight or comments, leave them here. If there’s something you think exists or want posted a little sooner, let me know and I’ll try and track it down for you.
Otherwise, just sit back, relax and enjoy the geekery that is student government.
January 19, 2010 at 9:21 am |
We need data on attendance. I want break downs by every meeting and every committee. FACES attendance better be damn near 100%.
Oh, and who are you and where can I find some food at that ASM grocery store
January 19, 2010 at 9:23 am |
ASM really needs to update some information on their website. It could have changed since I last looked, but they don’t have roll call information on the site. It is/was old. What’s up with the press office?
January 20, 2010 at 12:38 am |
A long overdue idea for a site Smathers. Excellent work putting this together.