Actually several years ago the council decided to not allow it to be taken out of office or council budgets because people took the course often to pad their own resumes or right before they left office or the employment of the city. In fact in makes perfect sense since people use it as a career enhancer but it isn't necessarily essential as job training in the city. Plus the city doesn't consistently pay for education for employees so this would end up being a program that some folks were able to use by virtue of their position in the city and others couldn't.
Lisa McDonald East Harriet >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Mpls] FW: Clarification from Lilligren >Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:00:51 EDT > >In a message dated 8/1/02 3:51:32 PM Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Actually I'd rather have the city pay for such programs than have them > > paid for by campaign contributors (which I'm not suggesting happened in > > this case, but it would probably be a legal use of campaign funds). > > > > Actually, I think in the past this very same program at Harvard was paid >out of the Council Member's office budget. Perhaps they have reduced the >amount in the individual office budgets, or CM Lilligren's could not >support >the cost. > >Karen Collier >Linden Hills _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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
