I have been lucky enough to acquire a handful of minutes over the past few weeks (in between family, work, and public meetings) to interview the District 3 candidates for West Lafayette City Council. For this round of interviews, I chose to focus on the topics of transparency and open government.
Of the three candidates, I asked the following questions:
- What are your views on transparency in government?
- In what ways is the City of West Lafayette open and transparent?
- In what ways can the City of West Lafayette become more proactively transparent.
- If elected, how would you help citizens become more informed and knowledgeable of the City’s plans and actions?
- How do you currently assess the City’s utilization of the Internet?
- Can a government be too open, too transparent, too accountable?
- Final thoughts?