Over the weekend I was given the email addresses of the county commissioners. In my Substack I put out that list. I copied that list, pasted it into my email, and sent my letter. When I reached out to my commissioner, she did not receive that email. I sent another from a different email address. She did not receive that either, but did receive the test email from the county commissioner contact page. She is going to find out today if those get filtered or sent to spam or what is going on.
This morning I decided I would not wait and see, but would send each of them an email. Their site is NOT set up to be able to contact all of them. Here is how this went.
This is the form that pops up when you click on contact the commissioner. There are 24. You have to do this each time. When you get to the 14th commissioner, the captcha starts showing up.
Now I have to choose the cars. I did not have to do this on the first 14, I only had to tell them I was not a robot.
Then this shows up to tell you that your email was submitted.
Then you end up back here where you can see your email. You go back to the top where it says County Commissioners, click there, and scroll all the way down until you get to the next one. You have to do this 24 times. You only have to choose crosswalks, motorcycles, bridges, or cars 10 times instead of all 24, so I guess that’s something.
And they wonder why they don’t get emails from people in the county. You can call me lazy, but I call it efficient. I would like to send one email to 24 people and have them all get it. In 2025, I don’t think that is too much to ask.
Because they really don’t want input from their constituents, I suspect. This is fixable by IT. They just have to want to fix it.
I agree! If someone serves in a public office email, even city provided, should be a non negotiable. We had a few in previous years that did not have one also. Super frustrating. It should be a prerequisite of serving.