Budget Season Hits the Homestretch

It’s May, and that means we are in the homestretch of the budget season. Now that members of the Finance Committee have reviewed the proposed fiscal year 2012 spending plans for each of the City’s departments and offices and the full City Council has heard from the public, council members are in full deliberation mode [...]

Catch Sneak Peek of Redesigned Annapolis.gov

Later this month, we’ll be formally rolling out an exciting redesign of the City’s website. In the meantime, though, we wanted to give you a sneak peek of our handy work: http://web1.annapolis.gov We hope the new model is reflective of Annapolis as well as highly functional, offering viewers with all the information they have come [...]

New comments policy

Dear Readers: This blog now requires that anyone posting a comment be logged in as a registered user. The registration process requires the person to validate their email address. The purpose of this change is to eliminate spam comments by ensuring that commenters are real people. I regret having to make this change, but in [...]

A contributing voice to this blog

Hello, everyone. No, I am not Mayor Josh Cohen. I am Phill McGowan, the public information officer for the City of Annapolis. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Josh to bring greater transparency to the city government. One way we hope to achieve that goal is through this blog, to which the [...]