They are changing it to a .gov domain designation, which has been pretty common in other cities across the country for better security.
But I will be curious how well the NEW search options work and if they will start livestreaming ALL meetings on YouTube and embed the videos into the website.
The website has been a POS for a long time and has continued to get worse. I have never understood how a city with it’s own IT department can have such a horribly functioning website for over 15 years!
Our city website should be a citizen’s first tool of open government not a maze of tomfoolery.
I wish I had a buck for every time I got an email from a citizen asking me how to access information on the city website. I have offered some different tips but for the most part I tell people, ‘If you figure it out, let me know.’
So YES, I am very happy they finally fixed it, let’s just hope the fix isn’t in.
I will cut to the chase. I don’t support either side in this conflict. I have true convictions about diplomacy and believe having hard conversations not only solves problems but nobody dies.
War solves nothing, and religious wars are even worse, they continue to have no end.
What is happening to the people of this region reminds me of the forced religious schooling of indigenous people in North America.
We could have found a way to live in solidarity with natives, instead we have enslaved them.
Both parties in this conflict have endured irreparable harm to generations of people in the name of hate. REAL HATE. The kind that makes you want to kill your fellow man based on his faith beliefs.
I am hoping that the citizens on both sides stand up and tell their supposed leadership, we don’t want to live and die this way anymore. You can read your book and I can read mine, and when we meet on the street we can agree to disagree on how we spell GOD.
We don’t have to love each other, but we do need to understand why we love the people we do.
No matter your faith in a higher power, we all have to live together, but why do we have to make it so f’king miserable?
UPDATE: So I guess the institute may still exist, in a charming Ranch style home. But I still can’t find any tax filings. The worst part is when you start doing searches on the internet for the place the ‘Institutes of Health Ethics, etc., comes up.
Whenever I open up the city council agenda for the following week on Friday night, I always take a deep breath before reading it. This week there was some gasps.
Besides the fact city councilors want to hire another employee (even though several of their current employees job duties are a mystery) and they want to get rid of taxi fare maximums (I thought we solved this when Lyft and Uber came to town?) the mayor has appointed former police chief Matt Burns to be on the ethics commission.
• Bachelor of Science in criminal justice administration from the University of Central Missouri.
• Certified instructor—National Institute of Ethics.
I am not sure how you become a certified Instructor with an organization that hasn’t filed a tax filing since 2012(?) and no longer exists? I called the number, out of service.
Maybe I got the organization wrong? Or maybe they merged with another organization, but when you do a search, the last tax filing was in 2012. So how is it you are a certified instructor with an organization that disbanded 11 years ago?
I’m not sure you understand ‘ETHICS’ Mr. Burns;
Ethicsexamines the rational justification for our moral judgments; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust.
So is it ETHICAL to lie on your resume for a volunteer public service position? Maybe I should ask a certified instructor? If only there was an organization that still trains them.
You know, I won many animal showmanship awards when I was in 4-H, maybe I should put that on my resume? Doesn’t matter I haven’t been a member of the Country Wranglers for 30 years, I really knew how to stage a ewe!
Do I think he is lying about being an instructor? NO. But he should clarify what century he was an instructor.
Even the white lie on the resume isn’t the worst part about this BAAAAAAAAD appointment (sorry, sheep humor) it’s his conflict of interest being a former manger with the city of Sioux Falls. How can you judge your former peers on ethics when you have built professional relationships with these folks over several years?
It would be like your significant other asking if their butt looks big in a certain pair of pants.
Conflicts of interest are the main reason we have ethics commissions, to help us determine what is ethically doable within those relationships.
I’m not even going to blame Mr. Burns for accepting this appointment, desperate times.
But it makes you wonder if the reputation of city hall is getting so bad Poops is appointing former managers just to fill the seats of these boards?
You have to scratch your head a bit when in one breath you name a police shooting range after a dude then in the next breath ask him to be on the ethics board.
A long time manager at the Dudley House has left the organization. This of course would not be breaking news unless a new food truck was involved, because most people who work for shelter organizations don’t last but a couple of years because of the stress of the job, so turnover is inevitable in the industry.
The issue with this departure is that this person was very popular amongst the staff and as I understand it this position will likely NOT be replaced making many employees questioning leadership and the board’s decision to leave the position open.
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