As the state legislature considers HB 5560, which would eventually allow local governments to post public notices to their government websites instead of local newspapers, we present the City of the Village of Clarkston.
The city website was down over the holidays ? not the victim of North Korean hackers, the site was locked by its provider due to lack of payment for renewal.
A call to City Manager Carol Eberhardt was less than reassuring. It wasn’t her fault, she told us. Officials before her paid for five years for the site, and then apparently forgot about it.
We think public notices, which keep residents informed of what government is doing and when, are too important to entrust to government itself, especially one like this.
‘PMC