If, as a new councillor, Neil Barnes believes that accountability is important (Letters July 7) then he should investigate why the council is now delaying the publication of meeting agendas and reports on their web site.

The papers for the last council meeting appeared only four days before the meeting – hardly enough time for residents to read them and make representations to their local councillors.

There have been similar delays in the “online” publication of other papers.

Anyone who has tried to lodge an “E-petition” on the council’s website will probably have seen it disappear into a black hole.

The only commitment that the new council seems to have made to residents is to hold their “cabinet” meetings in the local community. So the first one was held in the central library, scarcely 300 metres from the Guildhall, and the next is scheduled to be held in Priory Street – less than one-third of a mile from the Guildhall. All that particular “revolution” achieves is confusion and increased expense for taxpayers.

Reuben Mayne, Grayshon Drive, Acomb, York.