How do you persuade our Boston City Council to include plain
ASCII text in the regular emails they offer subscribers?...

Council emails include public hearing notices, public meetings
agendas, council calendars and corrections.

The obstacle appears to be one person who is a staff director for
our Boston City Council. The staff director has limited
understanding of the predicament of using only microsoft software
for emails.

Anyone can subscribe via email ann.hess at cityofboston.gov
Ask for plain ASCII text to be included when you subscribe.
Read the reply you get from the City Council to requests
for plain ASCII text !

City of Boston MIS Management Information Systems is willing.
Raj Pareek indicates he can not advise the City Council until
they make a request to MIS rajesh.pareek at cityofboston.gov
But the City Council hasn't been willing.

Council emails include content not made available on the web
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
http://cityofboston.gov/mis


How do you do better at negotiating with municipal elected and
appointed officials?... What are the most persuasive arguments?

Even the City Office of Civil Rights will not take on the part of
the matter regarding better access for people using adaptive
software technologies that attempt to render City Council emails
in audio
http://cityofboston.gov/civilrights

Previous contributions to this blog have been censored !

Don,
When you make a comment, it says, "Please keep your comments on topic. If this post is about WiFi, don't change the subject to City Council Policy. Either talk about WiFi, or get your own blog and talk about City Council Policy. I reserve the right to remove off-topic comments."

So when you make comments, that don't relate to a post, they get deleted. That's the policy.

You've got some great ideas about easy access to information.

Do you have a blog of your own? You need one. If you have one, what is it's address?

Would you subscribe to public notices of City Council Committees' hearings?...

And post the entire public notices here as an archive....

Our Boston City Council send out committees' hearings' public notices by email.The public notices have not been posted in their entirety at http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

The calendar type listings for public hearings do not include the entirety of the public hearings notices. The entire text of public hearings notices need to be available.

Public notices from Boston City Hall, from the Boston City Council
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
are available at
http://groups.google.com/group/bostoncityhall

If you folks happen upon any other public notices that you would
forward along, please do !... email
dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu
dsaklad @ zurich.csail.mit.edu

Would someone photograph the City Clerk's public notice board at City
Hall on the 1st floor by the Congress Street back entrance and send it
along...

The public notice board is available for view during usual business
hours after 5pm and on weekends too. But too far for people from
Germantown, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Orient Heights to get to routinely!

The actual public notices are often on stationary with letterheads that
list the leadership, the people on the board of the city agency. Useful
information. Regrettably, the original stationary with the public
notices doesn't get posted electronically yet. It could be available by
fax...