
{"id":4816,"date":"2009-02-10T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:10:04","slug":"missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/02\/10\/missed-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll not linger too long on the issue of the Town of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to notify the media in the usual manner about last Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retreat attended by the board of aldermen and senior staff.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impact on development was discussed came and went without independent review.<\/p>\n<p>At The Citizen, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reviewed our own procedures to make sure we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss something like this in the future. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pleased to report that in addition to offering an apology for the communication breakdown, town officials are checking their procedures as well. <\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve posted the agenda, notes and other materials from the meeting on our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2009\/02\/03\/retreat-notes\/\">carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2009\/02\/03\/retreat-notes\/<\/a>. To further the public record, we invite those in attendance to post any comments on the items on our site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll not linger too long on the issue of the Town of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to notify the media in the usual manner about last Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}