Post Script:
I respectfully await your comment, Mr. Chaudry.

Mr. House - I am going to make the leap of faith that you are urging people to comment during public comment session at the Village meetings, and not on this website. For that to happen people have to be interested enough to arrange their schedules around going to the meetings.

I agree with Mr. House on this - This is YOUR government, and YOUR tax money... The only way elected officials are going to be held accountable is if the public is first willing to make the effort to know what is going on.

However - I have received some adamant advice from someone over the past few months "Sweetheart! Sweetheart! It isn't going to happen, sweetheart!"

If the public will not pull together, it will not ever happen ...

Miss Vellone, if the board could see its way to a resolution to have the mayor duct-taped during public comment, I suspect that we would see more of the public speaking out.

In order for "open government" to work people must be willing to speak out. But the board also needs to provide an atmosphere where people feel their comments are valued and the board is willing to respond to questions raised. Unfortunately that has not been the case for the past year. With three minute limts for comments, interruptions while speaking, and never any answers, the exact opposite atmosphere has been created. Let's see whether the new board truly wants to hear from the public as stated in their letters. Let them create the kind of atmosphere that will promote communication.