No WhiteWash!

If one visits the City of Kingsport website, one can form an opinion that prior administrations has a lot more going for them.  For example, if you visit the web page that list the Board of Mayors and Alderman, you will see listed on the right side of the page many items that helped the reader see the direction the city was going.

However, it appears that this administration does not have anything new to offer because they have not updated the web page for many years.  For example, you can find the Budget Priorities for the 2002-2003 Fiscal Year, 2003 Legislative Policy Statement, 2001-2002 Transportation Needs, BMA 2-2000 5-Year Capital Improvements Plan and a list of Capital project Priorities identified in the 1999-2001 Strategic Initiatives.

To the BMA members, when you visit the web page to look at your photo, you might want to review the outdated information that previous administrations put on the web so you can get some ideas on how to run the city.  If the BMA has a game plan, then I think the public would like to hear about it.

My previous post on Elected Officials Contacts mentioned that there is no contact information for the Board of Mayors and Alderman.  Yet, I hear the BMA state that if you have a problem, then contact them.  The State and County does provide contact information.

There are many other areas in the City of Kingsport website that has outdated information.  To me, I would think that if you paid the City Manager $137,093 per year, you would expect that he would have updated the web pages.

I know that Kingsport cares about it’s image, but these web pages do not portray the image that I think Kingsport wants the citizens and future citizens to see.  Maybe, a solution to the above problems would be to form a Consolidated City/County form of government.