To the editor: I spent 26 years as a school secretary in Ettrick, which means I have filed, retrieved, and photocopied more paper than most people will touch in a lifetime. I mention this so readers understand I am not easily defeated by a document. The county website defeated me.
All I wanted was the agenda packet for the July board meeting. I found a page called “Meetings and Agendas,” which sounded promising, and which led me to a PDF titled “doc_final_v2_scan.” It contained the minutes from a meeting in 2023, scanned sideways. I tilted my head. I tilted my laptop. I gave up and checked the calendar page, where the most recent entry invited me to a snowplow open house.
I eventually got the packet the old-fashioned way — I called the courthouse and a very kind woman emailed it to me in about four minutes. She should train the website.
I know Whitehall has bigger worries than my browsing habits. But if the county wants citizens at redistricting open houses and budget hearings, it might start by letting us find out when they are.
One bright spot: whoever posts the highway commission minutes gets them up promptly, right side up, every month. I do not know your name, but thank you. You are proof it can be done.
Doris Wieczorek, Ettrick