Monday, July 25, 2011

HPC anyone (else)?

On the Community Calendar on the homepage for the City of Woodstock was tonight's meeting at 7PM of the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC). This is a public body of concerned citizens who keep an eye on Woodstock's Historic Preservation District.

If you look at the Calendar on Tuesday or after, the meeting will be gone. The City doesn't archive meetings or retain them on the Calendar for historical value. It would only take a click on a box in a menu to retain meetings on the Calendar, as the County does.

This Commission meets monthly on the fourth Monday, and the front door at City Hall is open in advance of the starting time. Except tonight.

I had hoped to hear some discussion about the recent joint HPC and City Council meeting. And I also wanted to voice an opinion about the erection of an 80' cell phone tower right outside the boundary of the Historic District without HPC and/or City Council action.

But the front door at City Hall was locked. What? No meeting tonight? Later I checked the Agenda in a different place on the City's website and learned that the meeting was canceled.

Why wasn't the cancellation important enough to put on the Calendar itself?

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