> --- Karen Forbes wrote: > > > > > NRP is about improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods. > [TB] I'd always thought NRP was centered around maintaining/improving the quality of the housing stock which is why over half of the money is required to be spent on housing/housing related items.
Quality of life is much more than police or public safety services that the proposed set aside is for. We have a difficult enough time trying to comply with the housing requirement, partly because the good folks at City Hall want to direct money to places they don't have other funds for (many of which are good programs). I'd like to see NRP money be spent on improving and maintaining the quality of our housing stock and not be mandated toward other areas. If this is truely a neighborhood impowerment program, we shouldn't be mandating money away from the focus of the laws that set up the program. Terrell Brown Loring Park terrell at terrellbrown dot org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ 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
