Forwarded for St. Paul School Board Member Anne Carroll. Contact Anne at: Phone: 651-690-9162 School Board: 651-690-9156 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------
Hi, all, Anne Carroll here... I'm teaching a course this semester for graduate students at the Humphrey Institute on participatory management and public involvement (more on that if you're interested). As the kickoff project, students will observe and report on a meeting of an elected or appointed governmental entity that includes some public participation. The purpose is to begin to understand how meetings work, the role of the public, and group interaction. They will be documenting baseline organizational information; meeting flow and group dynamics related to group members and the public; role functions in the group; and room layout and dynamics relative to group interaction. It would be TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL if any of you could forward either meeting schedules or links to such schedules to me before Wednesday noon. Examples include regular/ committee/ subcommittee/ citizen committee/ etc., meetings of groups such as neighborhood/district councils, county bds, city councils, legislative commissions, Met Council, school boards, township boards, charter commissions, watershed district/boards, state boards and commissions, school site councils, ad infinitum. These students live and work all over the greater Mpls/St. Paul area, so I'd appreciate any information you have. Please remember that the meeting must include public participation of some kind. While there are certainly hundreds of these going on, I'm particularly interested in your advice about meetings that may include some participatory dynamics that are especially worth watching. The due date for this project is September 25, so at least one meeting must occur before then. Any schedule through the end of November is helpful, however, since they will be doing field work for their other projects, too. Thanks very much for any help you can provide! ___________________________________________________________________ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel, writer and Nobel laureate There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream. - James Kouzes and Barry Posner Anne R. Carroll Carroll, Franck & Associates Strategic planning and communications consulting 1357 Highland Parkway St. Paul, MN 55116 USA Phone: 651-690-9162 School Board: 651-690-9156 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ================================================= Tim Erickson http://www.politalk.com St. Paul, MN - USA 651-643-0722 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105978430 ================================================= _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
