The first time I launched a municipal code book index, I chewed on the data in major search engine indexes for months in search of books across the entire nation. My original objective was to become one of the most comprehensive lists of municipal code books and once I achieved this, I was absent of any other direction I could take The Law Book List other than awaiting some service provider to come along and take the list off my hands (couldn’t keep paying for the hosting space for the original project, although the blogs still exist).
Since board meeting minutes represent the most official direct connection between a law and proof that the text of the law went through all appropriate steps before making it into the Municipal Code Book, it seemed more productive to ascertain what it would take to produce for one state two indexes listing these two sets of documents rather than trying to address the issue with an embrace of searching for the status of over 21,000 municipalities across the nation.
The State of Illinois ranks in last place as it relates to but one credit scoring system. It will always remain my hope these types of indexes make it beyond my State’s boundaries and are duplicated, but since I’m still struggling on how to be effective within my own boundaries, I’ve typically lived believing it’s better to succeed small and reliable rather than going big and failing spectacularly…again and again.
Of course, elasticity of terms such as “small” and “big” are not entirely eloquent or effective, but I’m all about sweating the small stuff, like board meeting minutes being properly published and accessible along side of the content giving people authority to write the stuff to begin with. Board meetings can providing a showing that perhaps big things are going on…
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