A new report by the Marin County Civil Grand Jury evaluating how transparently the county’s public agencies provide access to information gave nearly all of West Marin’s 15 agencies failing grades—except for the Bolinas Community Public Utility district, which earned an “A+” mark. Jennifer Blackman, the district’s general manager, said a self-audit provided by the grand jury led the district to improve its website’s transparency. “You would have had to really search around for those things [in the past],” Ms. Blackman said. “We wanted to supply that more clearly.” The district’s website now provides links to biographies of board directors and employee compensation; one can now read, for example, what Ms. Blackman earns annually and that Don Smith trained as a chemical engineer at M.I.T. and that Lyndon Comstock helped found a community development bank in Oakland. But other district heads questioned the need for the grand jury’s recommendations. John Carroll, superintendent for both the Lagunitas and Bolinas-Stinson Union School Districts, said this week that websites for those districts do include much of what the report recommended. “They’re wrong,” Mr. Carroll said. “The things they say we don’t have, we do have. I’m not sure what the problem is.” The Light confirmed that the Bolinas-Stinson’s website does contain what the grand jury recommended, with the exception of board biographies. The report lists key types of information deemed to make a website transparent, including all budgets for the current fiscal year and three years prior; financial reserves; audits; revenue summaries; board member biographies and contacts; and compensation and reimbursement policies for elected and appointed officials. Clearly indicating where these items may be found, the report states, allows for easy public access to information that many groups, media outlets and individuals routinely ask to receive. The grand jury audited each of the county’s 126 agencies between October and January and found that 59 of them improved their websites by March, while 27 still had no website. The report called on all agencies to improve their web transparency scores to at least a “B-.”