Good Afternoon List, People have become dependent on NRP, and why they have makes sense given its daily presence in our lives for years. However, one must now think outside of the same box that created NRP (whether they want to or not), and come to some conclusions as to how they could exist without it. That will be a tough one, but once that gigantic feat is accomplished, then you can re-entertain the idea of it on a much smaller funding scale.
As hopefully, much better organized (or at least more aware communities), you can decide what type of currently funded services/activities can be done by community volunteers choosing to pool their human resources. This sharing of ideals, time, selves, etc., may even cross neighborhood boundaries. If people can band together to save NRP, what they are doing is banding together to save themselves. So start doing it in spite of NRP. "I think, therefore I am." The neighborhoods came before NRP; continue to exist now. If NRP, in whatever its new incarnation, will still never be enough. So lower your expectations on it, and raise them of yourselves. IMHO, this is what (Earl Craig) NRP was supposed to do anyway. Help us as neighborhood residents "rise to the occasion." If there is one thing we should all have learned by now is that GOVERNMENT and TIME waits for no one. We are headed to fight Bush's war; the nation is in economic decline in other places besides the City of Minneapolis and its 81 neighborhoods; our children's education is in great peril; our universal mental and physical health system has one foot in the grave.... The clock of mankind is ticking, and the nations are rising up. Our husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, and significant others are being asked to put on their marching boots and to say goodbye to life as we know it. September 11th was our 9-1-1 EMERGENCY WAKE UP CALL. Did we hear it, and pay attention, or did we let it begin our own war? People need to work together now to get through this deficit in human capital if we have any hope of surviving with the least amount of casualties on our own home front. Pamela Taylor (In the trenches of Tampa, waging peace not war) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] Re: NRP Yesterday, neighborhood folks attending the city council committee of the whole had an opportunity to sit down with Mayor and talk about our shared perception about what is happening to NRP funding. One piece of the discussion -- and the Mayor talked about this-is: How can we incorporate the kind of community planning process that happens in neighborhoods currently on NRP projects into the whole city budget and agency expenditures? I am trolling for good ideas of how that actually might happen. Thanks, Scott Vreeland, president of the Seward Neighborhood Group Seward _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
