Comments on: Sunshine the Best Disinfectant http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/ News & Commentary from the Artvoice Editorial staff Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:00:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Laura Kelly http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/comment-page-1/#comment-5453 Laura Kelly Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:38:09 +0000 http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3443#comment-5453 I'm a Director of a not-for-profit that's a member of the Buffalo Community Center Collaborative. The BCCC advocates and practices Excellence in Not-for-profit administration, and as such advocates transparency and accountability. I'm all for making public documents public, including financial audits, annnual reports, board minutes, board meetings, and tax filings. I'm concerned about that last phrase there. The one about required filing of any study, audit, review or report. Any study? What about a market study funded by some other entity? When you go to your lawyer, do you demand that he produce everyone's files, and the grounds that your a customer? Now I don't suppose that the City of Buffalo is expecting that we will share all of our work product with them. It would be silly to demand our housing studies when they only fund us for human services activities. But let's be careful with the language, shall we? It's OK to share of our own accord, but I don't want to have to either fight or ignore a city ordinance. There's too much of that going around already. Laura Kelly Old 1st Ward I’m a Director of a not-for-profit that’s a member of the Buffalo Community Center Collaborative. The BCCC advocates and practices Excellence in Not-for-profit administration, and as such advocates transparency and accountability. I’m all for making public documents public, including financial audits, annnual reports, board minutes, board meetings, and tax filings.

I’m concerned about that last phrase there. The one about required filing of any study, audit, review or report. Any study? What about a market study funded by some other entity? When you go to your lawyer, do you demand that he produce everyone’s files, and the grounds that your a customer?

Now I don’t suppose that the City of Buffalo is expecting that we will share all of our work product with them. It would be silly to demand our housing studies when they only fund us for human services activities. But let’s be careful with the language, shall we? It’s OK to share of our own accord, but I don’t want to have to either fight or ignore a city ordinance. There’s too much of that going around already.

Laura Kelly
Old 1st Ward

]]> By: Dick Kern http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/comment-page-1/#comment-5452 Dick Kern Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:08:06 +0000 http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3443#comment-5452 It is important that BMHA not be forgotten as another part of City Hall's "shadow govt", especially as the long awaited plan-to-develop-a-poverty-plan evolves. BMHA is City Hall's major poverty agency spending many $10's of millions annually as few ever watch it. I am hoping to be in Bflo later this month for 'Ex-Pat Weekend" but cannot learn if BMHA is, or is not, holding its board mtg at 300 Perry headquarters on its usual 4th Thursday of the month at noon. In Sept 2007 I co-ordinated my trip thru Bflo to my HS reunion in Penna to enable my attending a BMHA's bd mtg, but it was cancelled at the last minute. BMHA, like BERC, needs much closer watching. It is important that BMHA not be forgotten as another part of City Hall’s “shadow govt”, especially as the long awaited plan-to-develop-a-poverty-plan evolves.

BMHA is City Hall’s major poverty agency spending many $10’s of millions annually as few ever watch it. I am hoping to be in Bflo later this month for ‘Ex-Pat Weekend” but cannot learn if BMHA is, or is not, holding its board mtg at 300 Perry headquarters on its usual 4th Thursday of the month at noon.

In Sept 2007 I co-ordinated my trip thru Bflo to my HS reunion in Penna to enable my attending a BMHA’s bd mtg, but it was cancelled at the last minute.

BMHA, like BERC, needs much closer watching.

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