Ventura Village (the NRP group in North Phillips) is trying to limit
members' access to its books and records through new bylaw amendments.
My question for list serv members is this: as millions of dollars are
going into neighborhoods through NRP grants, what have neighborhood
organizations done to make their activities more transparent, so that
members, residents, etc., can hold the organizations accountable? What
kind of access do neighborhood organizations give to members, residents,
etc., to review expenditures, grant recipients, etc? For instance, in
Ventura Village, distributed funds clearly appear to be going
disproportionately to Ventura Village board members and their family
members, and a request for full disclosure of all grant funds from
Ventura Village has been ignored. Without the level of transparency
that we associate with government (that is, the ability to determine who
receives grant funds), members of the neighborhood cannot determine if
all members are seeing their fair share of grant funds.
Gregory Luce
North Phillips
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