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Missed opportunity

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Staff

We’ll not linger too long on the issue of the Town of Carrboro’s failure to notify the media in the usual manner about last Monday’s retreat attended by the board of aldermen and senior staff.

It is, in our opinion, likely true that human error and not a conspiracy caused email notices to not go out and the information not to be posted on the town’s website. The only notice was a where-and-when memo posted on a bulletin board in the lobby at Town Hall. The agenda for the meeting, an extensive review of the economic climate, was not available.

As a result, no members of the press attended the retreat and a four-hour meeting in which fiscal policy, social services strategy and the economy’s impact on development was discussed came and went without independent review.

At The Citizen, we’ve reviewed our own procedures to make sure we don’t miss something like this in the future. And we’re pleased to report that in addition to offering an apology for the communication breakdown, town officials are checking their procedures as well.

We’ve posted the agenda, notes and other materials from the meeting on our website at carrborocitizen.com/main/2009/02/03/retreat-notes/. To further the public record, we invite those in attendance to post any comments on the items on our site.

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