Greater City Providence

ProJo: City commission urges accountability via Web

The group’s report, recently received by the City Council, proposes the following: an online tracking tool for council member votes; interactive budget information for the previous 10 years; and streaming important meetings live on the city’s website, providenceri.com.

“It is no secret that Providence city government has not always been a beacon of accountability and transparency to city residents,” the report’s conclusion read.

“And while City Hall has come incredibly far,” the commission says Providence officials have to continue developing a government that is “fully accountable” to its residents.

Jef Nickerson

Jef is Greater City Providence's co-founder, editor, and publisher. He grew up on Cape Cod and lived in Boston; Portland, Maine; and New York before settling in Providence. In addition to urbanism, Jef is interested in art, design, and ice cream. Please feel free to contact Jef if you have any question or comments about Greater City Providence.

2 comments

  • Would be fairly simple to implement. I should charge the city say $25K to build out a system that tracks the votes and record the video!

  • I was surprised to recently learn this information was not already available online. I was attempting to find the voting records for Council members on a recent resolution, and could not. There were published vote tallies, but not a who-voted-how record. The minutes from the meeting had not even been posted yet, and it was weeks prior. So, I guess I would say: it’s about time.

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