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Has the problem been solved about how to maake the Election Results
printable at least in landscape or all the races except Mayor in a more
usable format? Something is not right - shouldn't it be eastier to put
together?
Annie Young
Phillips Ward 6
At 06:10 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Alan Shilepsky wrote:
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>I want to thank everyone who directed me to the source of information
>below; but let me make the following suggestions for improvement.
>
>Scads of 40 page PDF files are far from convenient. I have a CD of
>Oracle instruction manuals in PDF format, and find it barely useable.
>Remember that old distinction between "data" vs. "information?"
>
>Much more useable City Council information would be HTML based documents
>that were searchable, and that used hypertext links to separate summary
>information from the details. Preferably, the City would maintain a
>web-accessable database table that might have such fields as:
>
> Date of vote; Short Title; Category; Passed? (y/n); Yea Count; Nay
>Count; Absent Count; Sponsors; CM's voting Yes; CM's voting Nay; Absent
>CM's; hyperlink to an abstract; hyperlink to a full description of the
>item.
>
>I'd have to think about how I would handle this database's One-to-many
>relationships (e.g., Sponsors, Yea and Nay voters; Categories). But in
>any case I would have the database be searchable at least by keywords in
>the title, by date range, and by categories. The hypertext drill downs
>would allow a citizen to get the details, without requiring her or him
>to optically scan 40 pages of legalese to find the votes they are
>interested in.
>
>It would be interesting to hear suggestions from the City for Neighbors
>researchers about how the City Council information could have been
>arrayed to make their job of preparing a scorecard easier.
>
>Alan Shilepsky
>Downtown
>
>"Pai, Vaman M" wrote:
>>
>> City Council actions are available on the City's Web site (
>> www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us ). You may also choose to go directly to the
>> following link to see Council actions (without having to travel Downtown)
>>
>> http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/clerk/actions/
>>
>> Each document is in PDF format -- to view it, you'll need the free Acrobat
>> Reader <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html>.
>>
>> Vaman Pai
>> Communications Department
>> City of Minneapolis
>> 350 South 5th Street - Room 301M
>> Minneapolis, MN 55415-1300
>> 612.673.2123
>> 952.365.6588 (pager)
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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