The Times reported yesterday that the Ysleta Independent School District board has voted to:
“… provide all back up materials for board meetings available to the public on the district’s website.”
Hopefully this material will be posted along with the board agenda so that members of the public can be better informed before board meetings.
Both this blog and the Times have made this request. Thankfully the board listened.
The El Paso Community College and the county hospital boards do not post the backup material. I hope that others will join in asking them to do so.
The city has done a pretty good job of posting most of the material. Once in a while we see agenda items with missing, skimpy, or misleading material. Unfortunately the city has chosen to remove the ability to electronically search city council agendas before 2014. We sent a copy of a blog article about this to the mayor’s email address but have not gotten them to change this policy.
A reader of this blog sent in this comment that has been helpful:
You can always use the city’s google search to look em up
just go to the city site, go to the google search
add the following:
+”AGENDA FOR REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING”
then a search term afterwards
Or you can use +”Special City Council Meeting”
if you don’t want the pdf’s, just add -pdf.
example:
+”AGENDA FOR REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING” alcohol -.pdf
He’s an example of their agenda’s that is “not searchable”
Let’s do what we can to get our local government agencies to be more transparent.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
All EPISD materials, including video of live meetings as well as archived video meetings are found here:
http://episd.org/board/index.php
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After the fact?
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No, all posted ahead of meeting
The live video is live…grin
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