Gina - You bring up an excellent point. Currently, neighborhood associations across the city perform significant and time consuming services on behalf of the city for zoning, planning and regulatory issues for which they do not get paid. Neighborhood staff often times is forced to spend a great deal of time working on these issues while NRP or the MCDA Citizen Participation dollars provide the funding.
If neighborhood associations didn't do the work on the zoning, planning and regulatory issues these things would just happen in neighborhoods without people having an opportunity to give input. That makes the services neighborhood associations perform on behalf very important. If you and your neighbors believe the critical parking permits are an important issue than I suggest you all attend the monthly committee meeting the neighborhood association holds and make it a priority for the neighborhood association. Generally, it is the volunteer board of directors that determine what the issues are that neighborhood associations work on. The issues are most likely prioritized by the committees providing feedback to the board. Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
