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About the Notice Board
 

The Notice Board on the Mountain Lakes Web site is designed to be a "Virtual Community Center", a place where residents can go to find out what's going on in town.  The objective is to present messages to residents on subjects they may wish to know about and to make it easy for organizations to post such messages about their activities.

The Notice Board may contain:

  1. Notices of coming events or activities,
  2. News involving Mountain Lakes such as a team winning or an important accomplishment by someone in town,
  3. Announcements of broad interest to the people of Mountain Lakes such as new water usage rates,
  4. Alerts of immediate and urgent concern such as school closings,
  5. Announcements of new items on the Web site.

Posting something on the Notice Board is intended to be easy so that people can do it themselves.  It is only necessary to click on the [MLNB] icon on the front page, fill out the form, and click "Submit". 

Reviews

To prevent abuse, all submissions are reviewed prior to being posted.  Only messages that have been approved appear on the Notice Board.

Because of the review process, notices do not appear on the Web site immediately.  Each notice is held until a member of the Web Committee can review it.  Once it is approved, it appears promptly on the front page of the Web site.  Approval generally takes a few hours but sometimes can be quicker or slower.

(If you are watching for your notice, don't forget to click "refresh" or "reload" to see the latest version of the front page.)

Policies

General

To be approved, all notices must meet the following criteria:

  1. Local -- Come from the Borough government (including Borough boards and committees), the Schools including private/pre-schools in Mountain Lakes, a Mountain Lakes House of Worship, an organization on the Community page, or an organization approved by the Web Committee.
  2. Non-Commercial -- Admission may be charged but an event or activity must not be profit-making or be sponsored by a business.
  3. Terse -- The Notice Board is designed for short messages a few lines long.
  4. Civil -- Notices must not be unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, or racially or ethnically offensive.

Coming Events

To be approved, an event must be open to anyone who lives in Mountain Lakes.  It must take place in or near Mountain Lakes and be sponsored by the Borough Government, a private/pre-school in Mountain Lakes, a Mountain Lakes House of Worship, a Mountain Lakes organization, or an organization approved by the Web Committee.

News and Announcements

Announcement messages not involving events or activities must meet criteria above and be deemed of broad relevance to the people of Mountain Lakes.

Alerts

Alert messages may come only from the Borough government or the Board of Education.

New Items on the Web Site

Announcements of new items on the Web site may only come from the Web Committee.

Not Acceptable

Explicitly ruled out are messages posted by individuals such as classified ads ("For Sale: Ford Taurus") and personal messages ("Single White Male wants...  ").

Grey Areas and Exceptions

It is recognized that no set of rules can cover every possible situation.  Since there are few resource constraints and little cost associated with the Notice Board, the Web Committee intends the rules to be interpreted broadly.  When in doubt, a notice should be approved as should minor exceptions to these rules.

Appeals

  1. If the original poster or any Mountain Lakes resident feels a message was wrongly approved or disapproved, they may appeal to the Chairman of the Web Committee () who may uphold or overturn the original approval or disapproval.
  2. If the original poster or a Mountain Lakes resident feels the decision by the Chairman of the Web Site Committee is wrong, they may appeal it to the entire Web Committee who shall decide by formal vote at the next meeting.  If an urgent decision is needed, an e-mail vote shall be taken.

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