Dear Editor,

In an effort to provide necessary transparency, encourage public engagement and play fairly while keeping historical Record in our democratic republic, the Town of Nederland, needs to:

1. Pass an Ordinance that once again requires the Town to print in the Paper of Record (the Mountain-ear) all BoT proposed and passed Ordinance language IN FULL, and all Meetings and or Public Hearings.

2. Per usual Record Retention: When Town makes redactions from Public Record, the redactions need to be ‘blacked out’ and no longer ‘whited out’ so the Public knows when something is redacted and how much content is redacted.

3. Per Record Retention Rules, restore the old website.

4. Follow the Nederland Municipal Code and Record Retention Rules and have the certified hard copy of the Code and hard copies of all adopted/referenced Codes available for review during Town Hall business hours.

5. Rescind any ‘paperless’ governance Policies and/or Resolutions currently established.

6. Per Record Retention Rules: provide the un-redacted invoices from the Town Attorney, including and especially those titled “Administrative”. Tax payer money should not be spent on unknowns to the tax payer/public.

7. Bring back the 12 month, one page chart, that in real time reflects individual BoT votes yea or no, and create them for the missing years.

8. Provide necessary usable surface space in Town Hall for the public to review Public Record.

9. Provide an ADA compliant bathroom in Town Hall, since Town is forcing normally grandfathered in buildings 40- 100+ years old to. Town should be leading by example.

Kathleen Chippi

Nederland