Look what Newton League of Women Voters is doing there
In Sunday's Globe, John Hillard wrote a piece about the Newton LWV plan, as part of their Municipal Transparency and Accountability Initiative that will assess the cities performance in budget, police and fire statistics, housing, councilor votes and attendance and more.
What a great idea that League has. Not that our present league here in the Ham could do it... but could a group of volunteers, say 9 or 11 objective, honest, neutral, and familiar with our Town/City come together and objectively grade the overall performance of our elected representatives?
Interesting idea.
john.hilliard@globe.com
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 8:40 PM
12 Comments
12 Comments:
The current LWV seems to do very, very little. No meeting on the budget here in Framingham, no presence at the Flag Day parade or the Juneteenth events, no apparent plan to do anything on the budget questions on the ballot this year, no more Informed Framingham events. All of these are just a few of the things the LWV did from 2017 when you and Steph brought it back but the new LWV could not be bothered with. What exactly is it that they do?
They are doing a candidate forum on Sunday at the Harmony Grove school. Not sure it will be aired live or not on AF TV, but maybe on FB.
I think Framingham would benefit from doing this here. But I don't think the LWV are the people to do it as like it or not just about everyone in Framingham knows they are biased and knows who they are biased about so it would not be an open and fair investigation. So outside of them, how would we make that happen here in the Ham?
Jim I have not seen anything at all about the candidate forum on any of my news sources which include MWD and the Patch. How did you find out about it?
On the League's FB page.
I guess I could ask on the various social media platforms if anyone is interested and perhaps MWDN could do a little blip in the paper. I'm open to any suggestions. But there will be serious push back from many in the crowd of the current administration and it's supporters.
Is it true that the league put that fool Kapust as part it’s delegation?
I suspect that if anyone seriously proposed this no one in the city of Framingham would even talk to them. They have been able to do things behind all of our backs for so long, and then lie about what they did, they would never willingly become transparent.
I think this idea is worth pursuing Jim. I do agree with the previous poster that the city is unlikely to willingly participate, but doesn't that send a message to residents worth hearing? The message being that none of our elected in our city feel they are accountable at all to those who elected them
Very interesting idea and would be worthwhile here in the Ham
Could it be done? Sure it could. But what happens when the bullies go after anyone who makes a negative comment of one of their political friends?
Last poster has it right. The city officials would never agree to being transparent like this.
If they don't, which is very telling all by itself, we file FOIA requests for the details that weren't discussed by FinCom during the budget process. Perhaps a survey on the different platforms to get a feel for what people are thinking. Now that water & sewer rates increasing and the tax bills that reflect the tax increase are getting into the hands of residents, the time may be wright to do this.
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