This is the way upcoming meetings are listed on the “improved” village website. The current method is inept because:
Meetings of the Village Council, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Adjustment are all mixed together. People want to know about one particular kind of meeting (not “I wonder what meetings are happening, any kind is fine”) and should not have to read through the entire list to find it. Categories (each council or board) should be listed separately, under a heading.
Nowhere does it state that those three groups are the only ones whose meetings are listed. In fact, numerous boards, committees, commissions, and councils will hold their meetings during the same period. Doing as suggested above would make it clear that those were the only ones, because the headings would say that.
Village Council meetings are not identified as such. “Public Meeting,” “Special Public Meeting,” and “Public Work Session” provide insufficient information. Everything on the list is a public meeting. Yet it’s probably council meetings that most people are interested in.
Upcoming meetings should be listed in chronological order, not in reverse chronological order just because some software does it that way automatically. It’s counter intuitive and unnecessarily hard for the user.
Another Aronsohn administration failure. The old website was SO much more user friendly. Go back to the old website or bring in a professional website designer to fix the new one.
The website stinks. It is an embarrassment. Even Janet Fricke admitted the other night that it is not “user friendly.” Understatement of the year.
“New website” is much worse than the old one. It is a pity a village so rich can’t put together a decent one. I am not surprised though when I see that things like replacing Van Neste tiles take priority over improving security and safety, properly paving streets etc.
I have not used the following quote in some time “Stupid is as stupid does” seems to apply at this time.
When a staff member at Village Hall or related is incompetent, the main thing is to keep them in place for as many decades as possible and then give them a nice pension. How about firing a few?
…yeah, but it looks pretty so it doesn’t really have to work.
A fish rots from the head down
Meaning
When an organization or state fails, it is the leadership that is the root cause.
I also prefer the older site.
Perhaps we could get a student at the middle school to design a better site.