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Knox County: The Replacements
Submitted by R. Neal on Mon, 2008/02/18 - 1:01pm.
The Knoxville News Sentinel has comments from several County Commissioners regarding the criteria they will use to appoint interim replacements for twelve county offices vacated first by a term limits lawsuit then again by a subsequent "sunshine" lawsuit over the first appointment process.
The special County Commission meeting to appoint interim replacements will be held Wednesday, Feb. 20th at 9AM in the City County Building Main Assembly Room.
Following are the applicants for interim replacements according to the KNS, with links to KNS profiles or resumes submitted by the applicants where available. (Please let me know if this list is not accurate.)
Withdrawn
• Chuck Bolus
• Michael Brown
• Steve Buttry
• Jim Eubanks
• Tommy Everette
• Caroline Hindman
• Vernon Rose
As an editorial comment, I find it interesting and disappointing that none of this is mentioned on the Knox County Commission website.
It's great that they adopted a more open process and conducted a series of public forums for the replacement appointments (prompted by the "sunshine" lawsuit, I'm sure). But there's no announcement of the date, time, or place of the special meeting that I can find on the Knox County website (apologies if I missed it and if someone can find it please let me know), there's no listing of applicants or background information, no minutes or reports from the public forums, no explanation of the process, and no agenda for the meeting. They are leaving it all up to the media to communicate this to the public.
This is pretty lame given the concerns about more "open government" in Knox County. They shouldn't expect the local media (or bloggers for that matter) to do their job for them in terms of outreach and communication, just like the KNS shouldn't have to take them to court to make them do their job out in the open.
(Again, apologies if this information is somewhere on the Knox County or County Commission website. I just wasn't able to find it.)
My guess is that IT has to do it and the departments/offices have to fill out forms and stuff.
They should install some kind of user driven content management system so departments can easily update their own sections with news and announcements and events and such.
Or maybe they can update it themselves but they just don't think it's important.
Mackay does a pretty good job with the Election Commission website.
Sandra, I'm curious. Does Commission send out press releases or anything about notice of meetings, news, etc.?
My guess is that IT has to do it and the departments/offices have to fill out forms and stuff.
Don't know about the other departments, but when I first went to work for Friends of the Library, IT did have to do it. By the time I left last May, someone at the library was handling it.
My guess is that depts with computer saavy people who want to handle it are allowed, and IT does the rest.
Submitted by Pam Strickland on Mon, 2008/02/18 - 3:33pm.
They should install some kind of user driven content management system so departments can easily update their own sections with news and announcements and events and such.
Yes, IT probably does have to do it, but that's just a bit crazy if you ask me. A number of businesses, agencies, schools, churches -- I could go on -- currently us a content management system that is easily updated by the non-techies to reflect current information. Perhaps another thing to put on the list re changes.
As for releases, I don't know if they do, but I seem to recall that the Open Meetings law requires a news release of some sort for all meetings.....
Pam Strickland
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
I thought Michael Brown and Vernon Rose removed their names from consideration for the appointment?
That appears to be correct according to a Feb 13 KNS report. Apparently they haven't updated their list. Thanks, corrections made.
I also looked at the Commission website to try to get information in the Shopper.
The Commission office has two people on staff. Seems that one of them could update the website. -- s.
My guess is that IT has to do it and the departments/offices have to fill out forms and stuff.
They should install some kind of user driven content management system so departments can easily update their own sections with news and announcements and events and such.
Or maybe they can update it themselves but they just don't think it's important.
Mackay does a pretty good job with the Election Commission website.
Sandra, I'm curious. Does Commission send out press releases or anything about notice of meetings, news, etc.?
My guess is that IT has to do it and the departments/offices have to fill out forms and stuff.
Don't know about the other departments, but when I first went to work for Friends of the Library, IT did have to do it. By the time I left last May, someone at the library was handling it.
My guess is that depts with computer saavy people who want to handle it are allowed, and IT does the rest.
Yes, IT probably does have to do it, but that's just a bit crazy if you ask me. A number of businesses, agencies, schools, churches -- I could go on -- currently us a content management system that is easily updated by the non-techies to reflect current information. Perhaps another thing to put on the list re changes.
As for releases, I don't know if they do, but I seem to recall that the Open Meetings law requires a news release of some sort for all meetings.....
Pam Strickland
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
List appears to be correct, except add John Irwin to Clerk applicants.
Mark Harmon
Got it. Thanks!
Looks like they rattling them off quick. Sunshine?
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