More Complaints about the Slow No Wake

Brian,

Any response to your plea to the Fulton town board on Tuesday? Will there be no-wake for the fireworks this weekend or not?

In addition to being opaque about the process of setting and lifting no-wake restrictions, the decisions to do so are not clearly communicated, except by taking a trip to the boat launch to see if a sign is posted. It need not be so. The town of Fulton has a web site with a Notices page. If only they would use it consistently.

In 2010, there are 2 notices for Slow No Wake: one from June 24th and one from March 13th. Both of these notices contain full articles from the Janesville Gazette regarding the posting of No Wake. They do not contain an official proclamation attributed directly to a government entity. And there is no notice of the lifting of a No Wake restriction.

In 2009, there are no notices on the Fulton town web site regarding no-wake.

But an excellent example of how to make a public notice exists right there on the Town of Fulton Notices site. On March 10, 2010 they posted a notice limiting the weight on the town roads. Then on March 22 they posted a notice lifting the weight restriction. Both notices are short and to the point, and attribute the rule directly to the entity that enacted it. Most importantly, both the beginning and the end of the temporary restriction are posted.

Can the RKLD convince the Town of Fulton to post their No-Wake decisions as clearly and conveniently as they did their road weight restriction? This would be a small step in the right direction.

Ken Brey

UPDATE:

Brian,

My previous email indicated that both of the No-Wake notices contained newspaper articles. That is incorrect. The more recent one is actually quite good. So if you want to post my letter, please post this version:

In addition to being opaque about the process of setting and lifting no-wake restrictions, the decisions to do so are not clearly communicated, except by taking a trip to the boat launch to see if a sign is posted. It need not be so. The town of Fulton has a web site with a Notices page. If only they would use it consistently.

In 2010, there are 2 notices for Slow No Wake: one from June 24th and one from March 13th. There is no notice of lifting of a No Wake restriction.

In 2009, there are no notices on the Fulton town web site regarding no-wake.

But an excellent example of how to make a public notice exists right there on the Town of Fulton Notices site. On March 10, 2010 they posted a notice limiting the weight on the town roads. Then on March 22 they posted a notice lifting the weight restriction. Both notices are short and to the point, and attribute the rule directly to the entity that enacted it. Most importantly, both the beginning and the end of the temporary restriction are posted.

Can the RKLD convince the Town of Fulton to post their No-Wake decisions as clearly and conveniently as they did their road weight restriction? This would be a small step in the right direction.