{"id":354,"date":"2008-03-12T04:31:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=354"},"modified":"2008-03-12T04:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T08:31:04","slug":"open-government-task-force-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/03\/12\/open-government-task-force-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Government Task Force article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lanka of the Journal Gazette covered the OGTF meeting Monday night at the library.\u00c2\u00a0 In all fairness to Mr. Lanka, he did write a\u00c2\u00a0preview about the meeting in <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080310\/LOCAL\/803100303\">Monday&#8217;s paper<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 However, in covering the event in <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080311\/LOCAL\/803110375\/1002\/LOCAL\">Tuesday&#8217;s paper<\/span>, no mention was made of anything discussed at the meeting\u00c2\u00a0except for the issue of Mayor Tom Henry&#8217;s movement of Code Enforcement back into the city&#8217;s Community Development Department from the Police Department.\u00c2\u00a0 City Council members felt the idea should have been discussed at some level before any action was taken &#8211; and at the least they should have been alerted to the change instead of reading about it in the paper.\u00c2\u00a0 After the first Councilman\u00c2\u00a0mentioned it,\u00c2\u00a0Lanka stepped outside with\u00c2\u00a0Councilmen Tom Smith and Glyn Hines to discuss it further and\u00c2\u00a0obtain quotes for his article.\u00c2\u00a0 Lanka should have been there to cover the meeting&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0actual purpose, but instead the\u00c2\u00a0article morphed into a controversy with a meeting wrapped around it.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost as an afterthought, he mentioned in his article that the comments were made at the meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The comments were made Monday at a forum on making government more accessible.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was excellent discussion and many ideas exchanged between not only citizens but city and county officials as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Each person, whether elected official or average citizen, was given due and equal consideration.\u00c2\u00a0 The spirit of cooperation and willingness to work together was for the most part enlightening.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Lanka left the meeting early,\u00c2\u00a0probably for a press deadline.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaving early, he missed the most important part of the meeting.\u00c2\u00a0 Before adjourning, the\u00c2\u00a0discussion\u00c2\u00a0turned to concerns about\u00c2\u00a0not letting the suggestions gathered die a quiet, unexplored and put-on-a-shelf-and-forgotten death.\u00c2\u00a0 Pledges were made from several officials that the ideas discussed were\u00c2\u00a0important and would be pursued.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the consideration and\u00c2\u00a0pledges made that were\u00c2\u00a0the biggest and most important news of the evening.\u00c2\u00a0 That is what needed to be reported.\u00c2\u00a0 That is what will stimulate other citizens to become more involved with government and initiatives like this.\u00c2\u00a0 But\u00c2\u00a0controversy is what sells newspapers -\u00c2\u00a0not encouraging citizens to engage and interact with their government.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lanka of the Journal Gazette covered the OGTF meeting Monday night at the library.\u00c2\u00a0 In all fairness to Mr. Lanka, he did write a\u00c2\u00a0preview about the meeting in Monday&#8217;s paper.\u00c2\u00a0 However, in covering the event in Tuesday&#8217;s paper, no mention was made of anything discussed at the meeting\u00c2\u00a0except for the issue of Mayor Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-government","tag-open-government-task-force"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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