The Missing Agenda! - UPDATE

In doing some research, I spoke to two people about the agenda problems with South Ogden City Council Meetings.  

First I emailed Dana Pollard, city recorder, she said the following, "It was sent, they just don't always put it in there.  Try the city website, there is one there also."  I remember she mentioned the Standard Examiner didn't print her agenda for the last meeting I attended.

Thinking this was odd, since the Standard Examiner has been so kind to publish agendas from Fruit Hieghts and 17 other cities, I decided to investigate.  I attempted to answer the following questions:

• Did the Standard Examiner just decide not to print the South Ogden agenda, but print nearly 18 other cities meeting agendas? 
• Is South Ogden City on the crap list with the Local Paper?  
  

To answer these questions I called Charile Pomerleau, Government and Education team leader at the Standard Examiner, I assumed he would know what is going on.  

Charlie Pomerleau said,  "We post every agenda that is submitted,  but we never see an agenda from South Ogden City.  We post every agenda we receive for City Council and Planning Commission meetings."

I asked if he was the person to send them to, he said, "Yes."

He then mentioned, "There has been some concern with the city offices and the value they put in giving information.  For example there was an accident this weekend in South Ogden.  The local police in South Ogden gave us a five word statement and said we could have the rest on Monday. We are daily newspaper, our readers need that information now."  

So...who is to blame here?  I think it is obvious South Ogden City has either not been sending agendas or they have been sending them to the wrong person. 

To help remedy the situation, since it could be just a mere oversite, I have forwarded the contact information on to Dana Pollard; therefore she can make sure the agendas get to the right person.  But apparently this has been happening for sometime.  I am growing concerned that South Ogden City is not doing well in the area of communication.  I personally have emailed our City Council members a number of times and received only communication back from the Mayor. In addition two of the email address are wrong on the city council elected officials page (See Here) they are still set to go to their predecesors, so good luck emailing Sallee Orr or Wayne Smith. 

(How much do we pay for the website again?)