Plan to attend and bring a friend to the next LWV member meeting when we work to revive the LWV Observer Corps. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in the Community Room of the Madison County Public Library in Berea. Bad weather in December led us to move the meeting to February.
Board members Jeanne Hibberd and Howard Bowden are organizing the training session with help from long-time LWV members and observers, Joan Peoples and Betty Wray.
LWV hopes to make use of its Web site and televised meetings to make the task of observing and reporting on local government more convenient. Observers will be able to write up their reports and place them on the newest “blog” on our Web site: LWV Observer Reports.
Through the revival of the Observer Corps, LWV hopes to expand citizens’ awareness of the decisions that impact their lives and to promote government transparency and accountability.
But a successful program requires citizen power. With a large enough group, we can share the task.
The informational session Feb. 23 will provide an orientation to observing local government, including how to get meeting agendas in advance and how business is handled in pubic meetings. It will also provide tips on reporting on local government for our Web site. For an example of an Observer Report, see Joan People’s report on the Nov. 12 Fiscal Court meeting.
We need your help and feedback. What agencies should we monitor? It depends on interest from our old and new members.
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