Sunday, April 22, 2018

The TrEE Committee. Long Live the Tree Committee, as well as the Mobility Committee.

True confession: RantWoman is EXACTLY the sort of nerd who happily spends the occasional Saturday night poking around government websites and looking at records, calendars, that sort of workflow. RantWoman considers it a GIANT step in governmental accessibility and open government that the kingcounty.gov website is basically accessible or at least that RantWoman can find plenty of material to keep her busy.

Tonight RantWoman took it into her head to check out KingCounty.gov in particular committees of the King County Council. What used to be the Transportation Economy and Environment or TrEE committee has recently been reorganized with part of the old committee's work now assigned to the new Mobility Committee. RantWoman wanted to know whether Committees page https://kingcounty.gov/council/committees.aspx and  the calendar of committee meetings had been updated to reflect this change.

Yes !

But...

Did we mention that RantWoman is a serious civic nerd who sometimes wants to look at the past as well as the present? Suppose RantWoman just wanted to see herself on video.  For instance, in connection with volunteer roles, RantWoman has a couple times been invited to offer testimony to the TrEE Committee. But with the committee reorganization, the TrEE committee disappears from the calendar view.

At first RantWoman was glum about the possible disappearance of archives. However, RantWoman is happy to report that TrEE Committee archives can still be found in https://kingcounty.gov/council/agendas.aspx

Having now noted this important civic information, theoretically RantWoman will sleep better at night and nerd out again another day. Theoretically.

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