It does now, but it took years to catch up with the idea that reports etc. could be downloaded from the website, possibly as recently as the Farthing review.Alex Holowczak wrote: As far as I know, the ECF only sends out the bare minimum it's required to.
Again from the SCCU archive
http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/0405/bcf.htm
7) Council Papers Electronically? A bit of a byway. It was a formal proposal on the Agenda, but probably no one expected it to be passed and it wasn't even put. The Strategic Planning Director had proposed that in future, Strategic Planning papers should go on the website for download rather than being circulated by post (but they would still be available by post on request). When asked why just Strategic Planning, he said because it was his proposal and he was the Strategic Planning Director. People said "democracy" again, and Council didn't want to know.
Webmaster's remark. This proposal wasn't silly, and I'd vote for it if you said ALL the papers. The BCF Office sends out about 250 copies of everything. I don't know how much 60 or 70 sheets of A4, mostly double-sided, costs them in paper and printing and postage. Not to say time. But the average attendance at meetings is less than 50 and I'd love to know what happens to the other 200-plus copies.