Yes, Franklin - the Town is improving its communications

In case you haven't noticed, there have been some significant changes to the Town of Franklin webpage. The page itself looks and functions much the same but the information placed there and the timeliness of the info there is what I think is worthy.

• On the Town Council page, instead of grabbing all nine emails to send them something, you can now do so with one click.

screen grab of Franklin Town Council webpage

• Franklin TV has enabled an RSS feed for the videos that get posted for the town meetings that are recorded. Yes, now you can get notified via RSS that the Town Council meeting video is available! (If you don't already have an RSS reader, you can find more about that here or here or here (video)).

top part of video webpage

bottom page of webpage with RSS subscription button

• But the best yet is that the Town is now using their "Town News" section to post meeting agenda and actions. The recent Town Council agenda and actions are seen here. Hopefully, the School Committee and others will appear there too!. (yes, one can hope!)

Town News is showing real highlights

To make it easy for you, here is are the actions from last Wednesday's Town Council meeting.



Deputy Town Administrator Jamie Hellen asked me when we got together to compare notes recently, "if as the Town did improve their communications, would I be worried about not having something to do?" No, not at all I said. I would much rather have Franklin provide the timely and accessible information so all the citizens can get what they need easily. If that times does come around, I am sure I can find something else to do. Until then, I'll do what I think is needed to share the information.