It will allow for electronic tax payment, birth and death registrations, the filing of citizen grievances, the public tracking of small infrastructure projects, and more.
The players union says it has found evidence that teams acted in concert against signing Barry Bonds, but it reached an agreement with the commissioner's office to delay the filing of any grievance.
Rodriguez, who was back at third base and batting third for the New York Yankees against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday, said he had "no reaction" to the filing of the grievance.
Baseball's drug agreement says the appeal hearing shall start no later than 20 days after the filing of the grievance and the arbitrator is charged with making a decision 25 days after the hearing starts.
The filing of the grievance, dated Monday, was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
A perennial thorn in the side of town officials, Mr. Perks had filed a host of grievances and complaints about employee safety issues with the town and to state and federal agencies.
Mr. Petrone said Mr. Perks "makes his living out of filing grievances -- that to me is the criminal activity".
The number of grievances filed against G.M. by Local 1112 members has declined 90 percent from the plant's most hostile days in the 1970s, when as many as 15,000 were filed in a year, he said.
Meanwhile, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, only two per cent of grievances filed in California between 2005 and 2006 were "granted in full" at the first level of review.
In the wake of that lawsuit, I am filing a grievance of my own against the publishers of more than a thousand novels.
