Ezra J. Temko

Newark City Council will be voting on this resolution on Monday, January 26, 2009.

SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE THE ADOPTION

BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF LEGISLATION WHICH

FURTHERS THE CAUSE OF OPEN, TRNASPARENT GOVERNMENT

          WHEREAS, Newark City Council  supports open, transparent governmental operations, and believes all political bodies have a duty to hold themselves to the highest ethical standards; and 

          WHEREAS, Newark City Council believes the state’s Freedom of Information Act was enacted to ensure that the People’s business is conducted in public; and

          WHEREAS, the community of Newark is impacted by state legislation; and

          WHEREAS, Newark City Council and every other local government and state agency complies with the Freedom of Information Act as a matter of law, yet also does so believing it is a wholly appropriate practice and becoming of good governments to do so; and

          WHEREAS, Newark City Council believes it is a wholly appropriate practice and becoming of good governments to provide open access of government proceedings to the public; and

          WHEREAS, open government is a nonpartisan issue and supported by members of our own Newark state delegation;

          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY NEWARK CITY COUNCIL, that the Mayor and the Council of the City of Newark support and encourage the adoption by the General Assembly of legislation which furthers the cause of uniform, open and transparent government at all levels in Delaware.