{"id":51,"date":"2010-03-23T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/2010\/03\/23\/e-government-award-presented-to-sudbury\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:32:23","slug":"e-government-award-presented-to-sudbury","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/2010\/03\/23\/e-government-award-presented-to-sudbury\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Government Award Presented to Sudbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tSudbury Again Presented with an <em>e-Government Award<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSUDBURY, MA &ndash; The Town of Sudbury, for the fourth consecutive year, has been presented the prestigious <em>e-Government Award <\/em>from Common Cause Massachusetts.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 2010 presentations were made at the State House on Tuesday, March 16.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In total, 181 cities and towns across the Commonwealth were honored for their dedication to maintaining a website designed to keep citizens apprised of meetings (past and present) and the results of those meetings, their bylaws, budgets, town meeting warrants and much more.&nbsp; Sudbury meets the criteria and then some.&nbsp; With the addition of Town Clerk, School Committee, Planning, and other submissions to the website, Sudbury qualified (with another 90 communities) for the <em>e-Government Award <strong>with Distinction<\/strong><\/em> &ndash; the Town&rsquo;s second year of attaining such honor.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Town Manager Maureen Valente commented &ldquo;I am delighted that Sudbury was again recognized for its effort to bring municipal transparency to its residents and others who find our website invaluable.&nbsp; We frequently receive praise for the website&rsquo;s content, so it is especially gratifying to again see the hard work of so many recognized by Common Cause.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pam Wilmot, Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts, in presenting these prestigious awards, stated that &ldquo;Many communities rose to the challenge and significantly improved their websites over the past year.&nbsp; By making it easier to obtain important information online, citizens will be empowered to actively participate in their local governments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Common Cause Massachusetts is a non-partisan, non-profit government watchdog, dedicated to citizen participation in an open, honest, and accountable government.&nbsp; It has more than 200,000 members nationwide and 10,000 in Massachusetts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Website Receives Common Cause Presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/2010\/03\/23\/e-government-award-presented-to-sudbury\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about e-Government Award Presented to Sudbury\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}