Chris Johnson wrote:
Let me play devil's advocate. Gregory Luce wrote:
1. In an increasingly tight and incredibly competitive arena for public
dollars, doesn't it make sense to promote a more 'regional' approach to
citizen participation, or at least support for neighborhoods pooling their
dollars more regionally for staff, office, and other infrastructure issues?
No, not necessarily. How big is this "region" you're talking about? Minneapolis as a city, as a region much larger than any of its numerous neighborhoods, already plans and spends far more money "regionally" than any neighborhood spends. So at the city level, we already have a more regional approach.
WM: I didn't get the same sense from Luce's suggestion: At Chicago and Lake four neighborhoods come together--Central, Powderhorn, West Phillips, and Midtown Phillips. If they shared office space, an office manager, copy machines, secretarial help, etc. each of the four neighborhoods' money would go further and each would have better organized offices. That's my perception of "regional" in this instance. In fact, some of us in these four neighborhoods have talked about this for a long time.
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