The City of Greensboro is approving their legislative agenda to send to the North Carolina State Representatives on February 5, 2013
47. Resolution approving 2013 Legislative Agenda and requesting support thereof by the Guilford County Delegation to the General Assembly.
(Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #47 to Councilmembers)
48. Resolution approving 2013 Greensboro Partnership Legislative Agenda and requesting support thereof by the Guilford County Delegation to the General Assembly.
(Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #48 to Councilmembers)
49. Resolution approving 2013 League of Municipalities Legislative Agenda and requesting support thereof by the Guilford County Delegation to the General Assembly.
(Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #49 to Councilmembers)
Item #12 from the 2013 Legislative agenda is titled Electronic Notice
Greensboro seeks legislation to have the option to use electronic legal public notices in lieu of publication in a newspaper. State law currently requires all legal notices be published or advertised in a newspaper of general circulation that also is a paid paper. The City of Greensboro seeks revision of this law to allow selected legal notices to be published by electronic means on the City's web site. The North Carolina League of Municipalities has approved this item as an advocacy goal for the upcoming season.
Will we see the Greensboro News and Record report on this? Probably not but the tide is turning for updating a state law in regards to public notices that was law before the internet ever came into existence. As we have seen here on this blog Triadwatch is advocating for our state representatives to save the Guilford County taxpayers close to $100,000 to exempt Guilford County from publishing tax delinquency notices once a year in the local papers . Here is the report on that issue on triadwatch CLICKHERE
Hopefully we will see our North Carolina State Representatives see the light on this issue and save the taxpayers money which should not be spent with the internet being the appropriate means of communication in this world today. I am sure the editors all over this state are going to bring out grandma and grandpa to let us all know they do not have the internet but all the taxpayers all over this state need to waste million of dollars having public notices in paid papers which are losing subscribers each year. The days when papers provided a great public service for public notices have been there but it is now the internet which needs to take the next step in this process and save taxpayers money on top of it.
1 comment:
That's assuming that the City of Greensboro can update, in a timely fashion, their website. And that users will actually be able to find the information once it's published there. Both seem like obvious points but are often overlooked.
I'm all for advancing technologically to save $$ otherwise.
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