Participation is key to achieving the focus, organization and information needed to help ensure our public funding is aligned with our values. Citizens can (and should) lead the need to increase the responsiveness and accountability of our governing bodies.
We need to communicate clearly and constructively with our town officials so they’ll know what is important to us.
We need to volunteer on a rotating basis to report on town meetings and local events to help keep everyone in the community informed and engaged.
Community members with computing expertise need to donate consulting and training to help our municipalities become more administratively efficient and leverage technology tools that promote transparency and communication.
We need to offer whatever skills and talents we have to strengthen our community—for ourselves and for our neighbors.
And we need to speak out loudly, persistently and respectfully when we find our governance going off track and not supporting what we most value.
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