Hello District Dime readers, and welcome to a new week!
This morning, we want to call your attention to the newly redesigned DC Council website, www.dccouncil.us. The site has several new features we are excited about:
*An on-line form to sign up to be a public witness at DC Council hearings. Now, a few clicks of the keyboard can put your name on the list to testify. We hope it will make it easier for residents to have their voices heard!
*An easy to use and navigable calendar of official legislative events at the DC Council. You can even sign up for alerts that let you know when the time or location of meetings or hearings of interest have changed.
*Quick access to the legislative history for bills introduced after September 15, 2011. As the website notes, the Council’s main legislative archive, LIMS or the Legislative Information Management System, remains a bit, well, archaic. Hopefully it can be updated soon.
*A more comprehensive public hearing or roundtable record. The new site allows for hearing notices, witness lists, committee prints and other important hearing information to be located all in one place.
DCFPI thanks the Council for making local government more accessible and high tech. We also thank the Council for listening to us! Along with other interested people and organizations, DCFPI submitted a list of suggestions to the Council on how to improve the site earlier this year. Here’s what we had to say.
Let us’and the Council’know what you think of the changes!
