Too Much to Ask?

On March 19th I posted content about the Woodstock Board of Fire and Police Commissioners from the City's website above the Agendas for the Board, and I asked whether anything was wrong with the content.

Here's the content from the webpage as it still appears:

Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
"The powers and duties of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners are established by State Statute and pertain to sworn members of the Police Department. These duties include: to conduct the testing process for appointment as a Police Officer, to administer the testing process for promotions, and to conduct hearings on charges brought against a sworn member of the Police Department. This Commission meets as needed. For more information, contact the Police Chief at policechief@woodstockil.gov or (815) 338-2161."

There were other guesses as to the errors, but here are the ones I found:

1. The name of the Board is correct in the title, but the name is incorrect in the first line of the content. Note that "Police" erroneously precedes "Fire" in the description.
2. The "Commission" doesn't meet as needed. There is no Commission. It's a Board (of Commissioners).
3. The Board doesn't meet "as needed". It meets on a regular quarterly schedule on dates that were selected at the September 2008 Board meeting (although the dates didn't make it into the City's Schedule of Meetings, as required by the Open Meetings Act, because the Minutes sat unapproved for over three months).
4. The telephone number (815) 338-2161 is a non-working number. The correct number for the police department is (815) 338-2131.

The errors were submitted to the City then and were forwarded to the website administrator "for further action". Correction, perhaps?

I wonder how many years that content has been there. And I recall the wise words of a man with whom I worked 40 years ago in the Loop. "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, you certainly don't have time to do it over."

I realize I'm picky about language, words, sentences, meanings. But isn't this something that is supposed to be taught in schools? To pay attention to the words you use and how you use them?