Text Box: December 2006 Text Box: COME TO GLEN ECHO’S HOLIDAY PARTY! Join your neighbors for breakfast at the town hall Saturday, December 9, 9:00-10:30 a.m. Bring the family and a favorite dish Please call and volunteer 301-320-4041 or townhall@glenecho.org Text Box: COUNCIL TO TAPE MEETINGS, put MINUTES, ORDINANCES ON WESITE By Jerry Bodlander The town council plans to again tape its meetings. Resident Carlotta Anderson said it was “essential’’ that the meetings be taped so anyone can hear what happened and the town will have a record. But Mayor Debbie Beers stressed it is being done as an internal record. She said people shouldn’t expect that every meeting is taped. She expressed fears that people will come to expect it, and the town would somehow be held responsible if one meeting is missed and someone needed that tape for a lawsuit. As part of a large discussion on improving communication between town officials and town residents, the town council plans to post its agenda and minutes on the town website. (http://www.glenecho.org). Ms. Anderson claimed residents aren’t “being informed sufficiently about things that they ought be able to know’’and that the information should be easily accessible. She said the website currently doesn’t carry important information, including ordinances, and asked asked how people can obey them if they don’t know what they are. Mayor Beers said the ordinances would be posted on the website with a disclaimer that the list was incomplete. Several ordinances are in the process of being revised.