--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The district councils share the same recruitment > challenges as do site > councils and school-based parent groups... We > learned transportation, child care and interpreters > were three key challenges to > becoming involved. We also learned cultural > awareness and communication styles > were an issue. > > We see strong opportunities for collaboration in > working to strengthen > parent-school-community connections from the base > (block clubs) through the > district council structure.
We (I am also on the Board of my District Council) do indeed face some of the same type of challenges. Jennifer, I encourage you to come to our District Council(District Five) meeting and make the pitch. We do provide some of those services. Caty's point that may have been more relevant a couple of years ago. As we know, there were lots of inequities even among the district councils, not just in membership. Some recent legislation has been passed to address some of this (but now that the President has cut the funding source for neighborhood councils who knows), and the recruitment is tons better today than it was just a few years ago. Which also is reflected in the CIB reps from the District Councils. Chuck Repke can address this more as he's been around longer and is more familiar with district councils and their history. I'm not white, I'm certainly not priviledged, I'm appointed to the CIB, I'm a board member of my District Council and I'm not the only one. While there is a lot of room for improvement, and we'll keep working on that, those two civic organizations have come a long way from where they were just a few years ago. Eric Mitchell Payne Phalen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
