Hi William G. Oates !
          
          Please look into improving the City Council information
          and communications on the web at
          http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil
          
          a. Council stenographic machine output needs to be made
             available.
          
          b. Transcription of Council stenographic machine output
             needs to be made available
          
          c. Closed captioning for Council webcasts needs to be
             made available for people with hearing loss.
          
          d. The current Council minutes on the web are too
             edited, too abbreviated, too ambiguous for most
             people to understand more clearly what really
             happened in the public meetings of the City Council,
             what really were the transactions, proceedings of
             the City Council.
          
          e. Plain ASCII text is needed for Council email
             communications that could be made more compatible
             for computer users of Linux, more compatible for Mac
             computer users.
          
          f. Plain ASCII text is needed for Council Committees'
             email communications that could be made more
             compatible for Linux users, more compatible for Mac
             users.
          
          g. A better method of routine updating for Council
             information and Council communications is needed.
             
          
          The excellent efforts of MIS Department's
          web team's Raj Pareek appear to be foiled at every
          bureaucratic turn !

          Reference
          http://cityofboston.gov/mis/

> On the heels of several new and exciting technology initiatives
> that are making the City of Boston more efficient and user
> friendly for residents, visitors, and businesses,
> Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced the appointment of
> William G. Oates as the City's Chief Information Officer
http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/news/pressarticle.cfm?Id=202

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