The Senate Site: The Town Meeting Is On (line)

We’re putting the Senate Site aside for a few days to devote attention to an on-line town meeting forum for the Legislative Site Visit this week.

On-line Town Meeting (www.utahsitevisit.com)

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For several reasons, such as a packed itinerary, a plethora of diverse communities, etc., the traditional "brick and mortar" town meeting was impractical this year. We decided to take to the web.

This on-line town meeting replaces 3X5 cards with E-mail, replaces the brick and mortar of an auditorium with whatever surrounds your computer, shrinks geography and tosses the clock out the window.

Welcome to the Town Meeting. We will be here for the duration of the site visit. Maybe a few of us will stay and chat afterwards.

We planned to wait until the entire site was finished, proof-read, nailed-down and packaged before unveiling it, but then remembered this is 2007, the budding era of the open-source republic. Several hundred brains are better than one. We’d love to have your suggestions, especially if they come with pre-written text and/or HTML code.

One thing we need is a graphic. Maybe the blue line drawing picture of the capitol is classy enough, but we were thinking of something that speaks to the social and literal landscape of Salt Lake and Davis Counties: Wasatch Mountains, city skyline, Antelope Island, etc., maybe elements of Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting… a Utah Town Meeting motif. Any takers among the artists out there?

We’re plowing new ground, but it should be fun. Let us know what you think.