{"id":7862,"date":"2009-12-21T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7862"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:03:43","slug":"parks-commission-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/parks-commission-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks commission opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2229157\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission wants to go public.<\/p>\n<p>After 124 years of meeting in private, commissioners voted unanimously Friday to open their doors to the public and the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a motion at the parks commission today that the meetings, in the spirit of openness and transparency &#8230; be open to the public and press,&#8221; said Vince Kerrio, a city councillor and the city&#8217;s representative on the 12- member provincial agency.<\/p>\n<p>Open meetings is the only way to dispel misconceptions about what goes on at meetings, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission wants to go public. After 124 years of meeting in private, commissioners voted unanimously Friday to open their doors to the public and the media. &#8220;I made a motion at the parks commission today that the meetings, in the spirit of openness and transparency &#8230; be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,49],"tags":[613,2683,99,255,2687,2686,2682,2685,1670],"class_list":["post-7862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-city-councillor","tag-media","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-open-meetings","tag-provincial-agency","tag-public","tag-transparency","tag-vince-kerrio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}