Blog here and plan here. It was interesting, and very important, and fairly sparsely attended. That's too bad, because anyone who attended got heard loud and clear, as the planners were specifically looking for public input.
You know, this may be crazy but it may also be something to bring back to your fellow public servants. I always hear things like meetings are "sparsely attended" yet elected officials are looking for "public input." Perhaps holding public meetings isn't getting anywhere, and it's time to do something different. Maybe a town email list (where perhaps only some people can post to it, so it's not a discussion list), or perhaps put something large and flashy on the town website.
I just keep hearing that people are looking for input but never get any, and I have to wonder if they keep doing the same thing expecting different results.
And as a corollary, how would you go about changing the SCA awards structure so that you don't have to beg for award recs? Same behaviour, similar problem.
Well, I know that there is an email list for my neighborhood, and one for Parkwood, and I know of a couple other such lists in South Durham. If I were in a city council type spot, I'd try to gather up all the email lists in the city that I could find, and broadcast out to them when I was looking for input. For places where there isn't an email list, I may have to try and get people to start them. Rental companies would probably be low hanging fruit, as they could reach a bunch of people pretty quickly and it would probably save them money in the long run (back in Little Kberg Commune, they would drop flyers on our doors for announcements, when an email would save the cost of printing and distributing said paper). One may also have to reach out to churches or other communities to get better coverage.
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I just keep hearing that people are looking for input but never get any, and I have to wonder if they keep doing the same thing expecting different results.
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And as a corollary, how would you go about changing the SCA awards structure so that you don't have to beg for award recs? Same behaviour, similar problem.
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