Transfarency

Blame it on Southwest.  An email was sent out to the newly-elected trustees, asking if they were going to participate in the "make emails public" initiative begun a few years ago, in the name of transparency.  

The message looked something like this:

I am contacting the newly-elected trustees to find out if they intend on participating in the "making trustee emails available on the town website" transparency initiative that started a few years back.  As you know, two outgoing trustees opted out, for their own personal reasons.  I'm fairly certain most trustees take certain delicate or potentially controversial conversations "off-line" to a private email account anyway, but making communication public gives citizens a good "excuse" to place trust in their elected officials, if at least the opening letter from a constituent gets on the town website.  Plus, other citizens potentially know what is going on in their community, on topics they wouldn't necessary be otherwise informed about.  But that's just my opinion.

Either way, I'm not going to judge you favorably or unfavorably, I just wanted to know if you had already made an initial decision, and what that decision was.  This email is going out to all the newly-elected trustees.

As the answers come in, I will update the table.  Currently it looks like this: