"New Chapel Hill website works on transparency" via DTH. Participate Chapel Hill website needs work.

From the article:

“One thing that Participate does is bring everything under one roof,” she said. 

Actually, that's the pretty much the ONLY thing it does, at least so far. I'd like to be hopeful about this, but I haven't seen any evidence of a shift in organizational culture that would be necesary to truly open up government processes to meaningful public participation.