White Salmon City Council Institutes Round Table Meeting Before Each Regular Meeting

In a positive move toward encouraging more citizen participation, the city council has decided to hold round table town hall meetings before each city council meeting. The city council meetings are every first and third Wednesday at 6 pm at the fire hall. The town hall meetings will be at 5 pm and last for 45 minutes. They will be set up in a more informal arrangement than the rather intimidating 'public comment' portion of the regular meetings.

This time frame may be problematic for many of the working public, not to mention the councilors themselves and the public hoping to attend the regular meeting who hope to eat supper first. It also may take some time for folks to be aware of this new opportunity. If this forum is less than well attended we hope that the Mayor and the City Council does not interpret this as apathy. Let us believe this is not a set-up and that this is a gesture in good faith.

In another good gesture, the council voted to have the draft minutes of the last meeting up on the city's web page within 4 working days. A meeting attendee requested they post the upcoming agendas as well. This blog is currently posting the upcoming agendas on the link to the right as well as the council's web page.