The view that Neighborhood Groups are some extension of government
is, in my opinion, a false one. It is unfortunate that this is the case,
but that IS the fact.
It seems to me that Minneapolis and it citizens wants a body of
some form to fill the void where "town-council" sits in smaller towns. If
you were to take any single Neighborhood in the city and drop it, say, in
Lake county, it would be one of the larger cities in the area. The
Neighborhood Group is supposedly filing the void where the City Council
would be in such a fictional town.
Unfortunately, such groups for the most part don't do what a City
Council would do. Nor is there any "United Neighborhoods of
Minneapolis" group. Until the neighborhoods get some degree of local
autonomy, like a County gets from the State, they're not going to be
governmental bodies. Probably a better term for what they are is Citizen
Advocate groups.
Greg Riedesel
South St Paul
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