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A RESOLUTION REGARDING WEBSITE POSTING
WHEREAS, Local Government Code, Section 52.004, requires the selection each year of an official newspaper for the municipality; and
WHEREAS, the law requires municipalities to publish in the official newspaper, at significant expense, many required published notices, for certain meetings, hearings, ordinances, tax disclosures, public bids, and other required messages; and
WHEREAS, many municipalities have invested substantial sums in developing the municipality’s own official website; and
WHEREAS, posting all of the same required notices for the official newspaper on the official website would provide a more efficient, less expensive, and well-organized means of publication of all required notices; and
WHEREAS, posting on the municipality’s official website allows the notices to be organized, and archived, for both current and historical information with electronic ease;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the delegates assembled at this 2010 Annual Conference of the Texas Municipal League:
Section 1. The City of Parker, by and through its duly elected city council, respectfully requests the Texas Municipal League to support legislation that would allow municipalities the option of selecting either an official newspaper, or an official website, for the municipality’s publication of official notices required by law.
Section 2. The City of Parker respectfully submits to the Texas Municipal League that adoption of changes to the statute will provide a savings to the tax payers of significant newspaper publication fees, increased speed of publication, a single centralized source for all of the municipality’s required notices, and less expensive and swifter access to such notices by not only the residents of the municipality, but anyone with internet access. The result is a far greater availability of the official notice of the municipality than a newspaper can provide.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the membership of the Texas Municipal League this 29th day of October, 2010, at Corpus Christi, Texas.
APPROVED: Debra McCartt, President
ATTEST: Bennett Sandlin, Executive Director
