Wednesday, January 29, 2014

St. Johns County No Model of Transparency

Today's joint first-ever meeting of the St. Johns County Commission and St. Augustine Beach City Commission was held beyond the range of cable tv and live streaming internet video cameras.
Wonder why?
Plase see below.
St. Johns County "won" an award from a public administration group last year for its putative "transparency" based on its website.
St. Johns County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK should apologize for holding today's meeting beyond the ambit of live tv coverage.
The backsides of WANCHICK, oounty staff, and some Commissionrs were to the audience.
Ever try talking to someone's backside?
This is tacky -- like the way Marilyn Crotty of the University of Central Florida arranged the chairs for the first session of the decennial St. Augustine Beach Charer Review Committee.
MICAHEL DAVID WANCHICK should apologize for avoiding tv and streaming video coverage of the joint meeting, and for sitting for 2.5 hours with his back to the audience.
Shameful.
MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK should also apologize for his staff never listing Monday's TDC meeting on the County Commission website before last Friday afernoon, while paying money for the St. Augustine Record to run a classified ad (which no one reads).
Mr. WANCHICK should return the award for "transparency" as improvidently given.
Otherwise, he should earn it if he doesn't return it.
What do you think?
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