PATA History Pages

Pickerington Web Site seeks Public Input, errors Stop Comments

City Web Site not allowing comment submission

***** Update on correction of City web site - COMMUNICATING WITH OFFICIALS *****

The Contact City Officials links are now working due to citizen efforts in contacting the internet site designer for Pickerington to fix the problem. City officals were urged to fix the problem for several months and did not attempt to do so. It only took one five minute email from a concerned citizen to the site host to fix the problem. City officals apparently cannot spare time to send a brief email to the site host to whom they pay your tax dollars for the design and operation of their site.
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Despite efforts several weeks ago by PATA members to notify the City that their web site "Contact City Officials" page was not working, The problem persists as of 16 May 2001.

Any use of the links on this site to contact the city are inoperable when you click the submit button on the City site,after taking the time to type your comments. The error message you will receive reads as follows:

Mail send failure. Error was :503 must have sender and recipient first
Response object error 'ASP 0156 : 80004005'

Header Error

/sections/mayor/contact/prsform.asp, line 230

The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser. Any HTTP header modifications must be made before writing page content.


We hope the city corrects the problem soon, as many inquiries have been made to this site as to what is the problem with the link and the City Site. It is important that the city be proactive seeking citizen comments about their actions in as many ways as possible to remain true to their mission of service and representation of the "people's will."

***** The correction came about by citizens who contacted the City's outside web administrator directly. ****