The municipal code is online on the City web site but is a format that make it hard to access. It is not clear the code is updated in a timely manner. This would not be like Wikipedia where anyone could edit it, Only a select group, run by the editor of this part of Talk of the Sound, would have access to edit the site.

The first part of this job is to copy and paste the online version of the code into the Wiki software which is probably a day long effort.

Once that is done, the editor would make edits to the Code based on a resolution passed by the City Council. This means reading the minutes after each board meeting and making edits as needed. In my review of past minutes there are sometimes NO changes, sometimes one or two or three. It is unusual to see much more than that.

the software we use for the site has a "forum" module. some folks prefer the discussion forum model for community talk. If you like forums and would be interested to become the moderator of such a forum we would enable this feature and put you in change of it.

Tag Sale Editor would initially collect announcement of tag sales from various sources - direct solicitation, taking down information from posted signs, readers reporting sales information, craigslist and other sources. The information would be put into a list to be published every Thursday night. There is a way to make a Google map based on this information and the editor would be taught how to do this - it is not that hard once a person has been taught how. The idea is that readers could come to the site each weekend and get a list of all the tag sales in New Rochelle along with a map displaying the location of each sale so they could plan their trip to visit sales of interest to them. Over time, hopefully, the list would become popular and more and more people would contact the editor directly via email with information about their tag sale so that the job would evolve over time into simply collecting emails and putting into the list/google map.

Expenditure per child is measured by dividing total budget number by number of students. Is there a way to look at budget BY SCHOOL? Come up with a budget per pupil by school? What about gifts to the school (parents, PTA, community?). Do the schools report out gifts to the school? If you take the average per pupil and the gifts per pupil by school you would get variance. What about the actual value of the school itself - property, facilities, etc. Is there an "insured value"?

Hypothesis - kids at Davis get more money than kids at Columbus when you factor in gifts

Should direct gifts to a specific school be prohibited? Set up a common fund for such gifts?

Analyze results for 2006 for ALMS and IYMS, there were twice as many kids in ALMS getting a 4 on the test

teachers are either highly qualified (bachelors degree + teaching certificate in the area they teach) or have no teaching certificate at all; How many teachers have a bachelors degree but no teaching certificate, or bachelors degree but teaching certifi cate in some other area. Also, how many teachers have master's degrees? How many teachers are currently enrolled in a program to earn a master's degree? What is length of time between getting bachelors degree and getting masters for those who are either getting it or working towards it?

Looking for someone to cover Board of Ed meetings - record, report, take pictures, etc. May want to have a team of people for this role.