Animal Control Board meetings to be televised
Kudos to Mayor Ballard for overruling the IACC board chairman, David Horth, request that government channel 16 be excused from taping / broadcasting the IACC board meetings.
Heather Gillers, of the Indianapolis STAR, reports:
“If I have to carry a camera in there myself and televise it, we’ll do that,” said Chris Cotterill, the mayor’s chief of staff. “That’s how strongly the mayor believes in transparency.”
“Horth said he was trying to cut down on ‘grandstanding and showboating’ in the public comments portion of the meeting.
This kind of elitist attitude is contrary to the health of transparency in both government and animal welfare.
http://indianalawblog.com/archives/2009/12/ind_govt_animal.html