[Titus wrote] Most neighborhoods, I suspect, have nowhere near the turnout
at local meetings that they do for a national election. It is a shame that
this is true, and I believe that most, if not all, of us who work on behalf
of our neighborhoods wish it were not.
[Johnson writes] True,
[Dorothy Titus] I don't see how it would be better to let the city council
determine where the money is spent.
[Vicky Heller] Excuse me! Why do you think they get elected? The City
Council is supposed to safeguard the public treasury; use money wisely.
They are supposed to deal with
I hope the charge below won't overly distract the list. There's no evidence
presented. There's also no indication that audit information - from NRP or
other government bodies - is unavailable.
There are many legitimate policy differences for us to discuss. But the
frequent criminalizing of
--- Victoria Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They are supposed to deal with Potholes, Police, Parks, and
Pyrofighters.
That's it. [Note: Hennepin County provides libraries]
[TB] Where did you find your list? I always thought it was a bit
longer and included such things as snow plowing,
Terrell Brown wrote:
Every neighborhood group getting NRP money is audited. In
Loring Park its by the State Auditor. Last time I checked, the State
Auditor was a Republican. Last I checked she'd changed her name to
Anderson but hadn't changed political parties.
Remember the line from
Bob Johnson wrote:
However, when it came to the turnout of C-RWB voters eligible to vote
for authorizing the expenditure of $1,500,000 in NRP funds about that
same time, it was a very different type of democracy, a dubious
democracy to be nice. Of the 6,212 C-RWB residents eligible to vote,
about
NRP has had 15 years to prove its worth. If it is so pacesetting, why
haven't other cities followed suit after 15 years of this experiment,
which is said to owe its genesis to Cedar-Riverside West Bank's failed
and fraudulent neighborhood movement in the 1970s and 80s. An award
from Harvard
On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Bob Johnson wrote:
NRP has had 15 years to prove its worth. If it is so pacesetting, why
haven't other cities followed suit after 15 years of this experiment,
This is faulty logic. Perhaps the institutional barriers in other
places are too strong to permit a good
oops.
That doesn't mean NRP is perfectable - far from it. But it doesn't
mean it's a fraud, worthless, etc.
Should read:
That doesn't mean NRP isn't perfectable - far from it.
Turning off computer now
David Brauer
Kingfield
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