Everett moves to make more information available

I wrote last week about how the city of Everett doesn’t have some basic information on its web site, such as an accurate list of all its boards and commissions or who serves on those boards and when they meet. It can be challenging to get agendas for some of these boards, which are supposed to conduct business in public.

That’s going to change, said Debra Bryant, Everett’s chief financial officer. She called and said she had no idea there was an information blackout, and the city is working to correct that now. Indeed, on Monday afternoon I took a look at that space on the city’s web site and saw lists of people who serve on some of the boards and a few new links to agendas. The work was incomplete but it appears the city is responding.