Looming Midway mayoral, council elections bring calls for more transparency
A run-down Butler Avenue where cellular phone service is meager to nonexistent in some spots. The lack of new businesses. Low-tech posting of city council minutes.
Those were some of the complaints aired last week at a candidate forum in Midway sponsored by the Liberty County Branch of the NAACP. But a frequent theme among challengers to the established order was what they called a lack of transparency from City Hall.
Eight of the 11 candidates for the Midway City Council attended the forum. Rudy Campen, Jamal McIver, and incumbent Henry Stevens were absent. One of the three mayoral candidates, Kenneth Williams, also did not attend.
Whether it is the city’s outdated website or being forced to drive to City Hall to examine council meeting minutes posted on a bulletin board, the obstacles to information pertaining to the city’s operations and expenditures was a problem, some forum participants said.
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