Entries by NewportTown

Public Records Act

A Public Utility tool for Transparent Government. Use it! What is the Public Records Act? Why is it so important? So you ask yourself when you get a increase on water bill. Your property taxes go up. What is our town paying the employees. Why and what did they pay contractors for that useless community […]

Open Meeting Law

The section of our website to explore the “Open Meeting Laws or commonly referred to as the OML. Please be our guest and check out the videos and references included in this section of the website.

For the People Blog

All People Welcome to this blog from anywhere at anytime Let’s Talk We know that our small town or city government is organized of course. They have meetings and discussions regularly. We know that our democracy is “for the people, by the people”. The “by the people” part of this equation has become challenged. It […]

Response to Denise Daigle

Feb 4th, 2016 Select Board Meeting At this meeting we were going over some of the Open Meeting laws and Public Records Act. So in the course of our discussion while I had the floor, I mentioned my first experience on a Public Records request with the Town Clerk, Denise Daigle. She was new to […]

Response to Albert Felker

Select Board Meeting Feb 4th, 2016 In one section of this Video, There was issue taken by Albert on the fact that I considered actions taken by Select Chair Steven Barrup as gross non compliance of Open Meeting Law and Public records Act at the Nov 7th, 2015 Selectboard Meeting. The discussion grew heated and […]