Terrell Brown said:
> The NRP Central Office does little to help the > neighborhood groups > administer themselves. For example any organization > that receives and > spends money needs to keep records of how that money > is received and > spent but each group is expected to figure out their > own way of keeping > those records. The NRP Central Office is more > interested in approving > plans, they don't really help in developing the > infrastructure to carry > those plans out. > I may be blasted for saying so, but I agree with that statement. I have always felt that the fiasco that happened to the People of Phillips was not entirely their fault. I believe that NRP should have done more to ensure the infrastructure, and possibly, it could have helped avert that disaster. There have been entities who also felt that their neighborhood groups were not equipped to handle that part of it, and wanted another fiscal agent to assist them in that end. At the time NRP would not do that. They insisted that they work with the recognized neighborhood entity, which I felt was a mistake. It greatly hampered the progress of the neighborhood, causing frustration and burnout of its steering committee. We all know that only a few individuals seem to do a majority of the work, so losing individuals of that caliber is always tough. It seems that we, at NRP, should have understood that. True, NRP was a learn as you go type deal, and it never professed to have all the answers. Still doesn't. Just seems that problems of that nature should be less after all this time. Pamela Taylor (Former NRP Specialist) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________ 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
