how do you get important public information where you live? email? message on your phone? how many places do you know of where the ONLY source of important public information is facebook?
Here's an example of how the town of strasburg VA doesn't communicate important public information with it's citizens:
"Town of Strasburg
December 14 at 3:01 PM
Due to the weather forecast for tomorrow, there will be NO TRASH SERVICE on Thursday, Dec. 15. Thursday's trash will be picked up on Friday, Dec. 16 and Friday's trash will be picked up on Saturday, Dec. 17. Please, place trash out the night before for early pick-up. Please, let your friends and neighbors know about this change."
so, if you live in strasburg and want important public information, then you have to:
- be clairvoyant and KNOW that there's important public information to be had.
- log into the town's pitiful facebook page.
- search for the important public information.
- HOPE that you find it.
- HOPE that you find the important public information in time BEFORE it's too late.
- never mind that most people aren't clairvoyant.
- never mind that some citizens aren't on facebook.
- never mind that some citizens don't have 24/7 access to a smartphone or a PC.
- never mind that those people who have facebook typically work for a living and have more important things to do than to hang around the town's pitiful facebook page waiting for important public information.
- never mind that it's not the job of citizens to inform other citizens of important public information ("Please, let your friends and neighbors know about this change.")
has it ever occurred to the people at town hall to conduct a survey of its citizens to find out how ineffective their facebook ONLY non-communication with citizens is?
answer: of course NOT
so, if you want to live in a town with an unimaginative government that fails to provide important public information to its citizens in a timely manner, then strasburg VA is the town for you.
