Searcy Mayor David Morris is hosting a ‘town-hall meeting’ tonight at the Carmichael Community center.

It will be mostly an open format where citizens are allowed to ask questions (*GASP*).

Friends of open government should attend and ask questions like:

• Why did the city repeal its only transparency ordinance?  Was it really to avoid a ‘huge box crisis?’  And why didn’t the mayor stop it?

• Why isn’t the city budget online yet?

• What, specifically, has the city done to promote transparency in government?

• Is SearcyStreets.com ready to go, as promised, since the collection of our latest tax increase begins next week?

• Now that we’ve voted in a tax for a bypass, are we any closer to knowing the path of the road?

The meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Nic Horton