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Thanks for taking the time to offer some input as to the features for
the
ACC website. It is still in the preliminary stages of development and
I'll
be glad to add your thoughts to the ongoing discussion as to what the
site
will contain. Initially, it will provide more basic information and
expand
to fill a larger need with more advanced features. However, I'll address
specifically a few of the ideas you mentioned:

1) Supportive documents re rezoning applications: Applications and forms
for
the Planning and Building Inspection Departments are a major
consideration
for this site, although I'm not sure if they will be introduced at the
outset. Supportive information is much more likely and will be
considered as
well.

2) Authoritative listing/calendar: This feature is already planned and
will
be part of the initial set of features that will debut with the site.

3) Bulletin boards for commentary: This is currently not one of the
features
that we are considering and I don't anticipate it becoming part of the
site.
I have found such areas on other sites to be less than useful as they
tend
to feature less exchange and more irrelevant posts. However, we will
have
several e-mail addresses and links for citizens to use to offer their
thoughts to us and to other Athens-Clarke County departments. I believe
that
the Athens Banner-Herald (www.onlineathens.com) used to have one of
these
forums, and there is a usenet for Athens (ahn.general). However, the
latter
recently had 69 new posts, all but 1 or 2 of which were irrelevant posts
-
mostly commercial in nature.

I hope this answers your questions and thanks again for the input. I
will
let you know when the site is nearing completion and its debut online.

Sincerely,

Jeff Montgomery
Public Information Technician

Public Information Office
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government
(706) 613-3795 : phone
(706) 613-3029 : fax
P.O. Box 1868
Athens, GA  30603
accinfo@negia.net


-----Original Message-----
From: John Huie <jphuie@athens.net>
To: accinfo@negia.net <accinfo@negia.net>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 11:25 PM
Subject: For Jeff Montgomery


>To Jeff Montgomery, ACC Public Information office:
>
>I understand you're designing a website for the county govt.  As I 've
>been somewhat involved (as a citizen) with local land use issues, I
>could see how useful it could be... would it be possible to include 1.
>supportive documents re rezoning applications  and 2.  an authoritative
>listing/calendar of meeting dates of all county-related bodies, as these
>ARE public meetings and the list in the daily paper is inconsistent and
>often incomplete.
>  Also, what would you think of a bulletin board(s) for public exchanges
>on issues like the land-use plan?
>Sincerely, John Huie Athens