A Press Release from the Ben Konop for Lucas County Commissioner Campaign:
Building on his focus of providing a higher standard of leadership, Democratic Commissioner candidate Ben Konop will be holding a 10:30 AM news conference today, July 17, in front of One Government Center to discuss his four-part proposal promoting openness and accessibility in county government.
Konop will propose streaming live webcasts of Lucas County Commissioner meetings, as well as real-time television broadcasts.
Konop is also calling for an increase in the number of meetings held throughout the county and in the evenings. With one-third of the residents of Lucas County living outside of the city limits, equitable practice would call for a commensurate proportionality in the location of meetings, with two-thirds in the city and one-third in other areas.
Konop is also advocating for the county budget to be placed online to increase accessibility and accountability in spending practices.
Finally, Konop is calling for full disclosure of all campaign contributions via the website of the Lucas County Board of Elections. Franklin County already has such a system in place in order to provide the voters with a clear picture of the sources of funding for each candidate.
Konop hopes these changes will help restore faith in the integrity of elected officials. “In the wake of Tom Noe and backroom bribes in city council, it is important to make government operations as transparent as possible,” stated Konop.“Allowing voters to see for themselves where campaign contributions originate is truly in the spirit of democratic government,” added Konop. “Leaders need to be open and accountable in every way, and this plan seeks to move county government in that direction.”
The four-step proposal builds upon Konop’s ethics pledge to the citizens of Lucas County and his June 29th announcement that as a Commissioner, Konop hopes to utilize open-source software on County computers potentially saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
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2 comments:
I thought Mr. Konop was a little unrealistic when he floated the idea of a regional tax, but at least it was an idea. Simply having an idea isn't a bad thing unless you allow it to be implemented without review through the proper channels. These all seem to be good ideas to me. Is there a way to vote for Mr. Konop to replace one of the current Dems?
As I recall most of these ideas have been either proposed or tried before, and they died for any lack of concern by the voters of any of that government stuff.
Toledo also tried some of these too, especially the movable and evening meetings.
After all, no self respecting elected official wants the public hearing or seeing what goes on behind the curtain, even those proposing such openness...
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