Patch Election Q&A: Martin Flowers on Question #5

The question:

How can the village better engage its residents to participate in city government? Very few citizens attend village meetings. How can this be changed? What have you, specifically, done to get more people interested in their government?

With the new faculties of Village Hall the village has already moved in the right direction, with the cable access studio and its working relationship with the printed press and digital medium form of press. By launching a Facebook page and creating a more user-friendly website, Montgomery is working to include more of our residents.

We can visit moving committee meetings into the evenings to help include more of our residents who work during the day. We can work towards creating a digital newsletter that is sent out once a month featuring updates and other activities being done at Village Hall. We also have the ability to televise our village board meeting in cooperation with Comcast. Montgomery in the last few years has made steps in this direction and we must continue to work to always keep our residents informed of the current events of City Hall.