Citizens’ Voices Minutes
January 10, 2007
Attending: Mike Lagerquist,
Dave Boyce, Ardie Thompson, Malda Farnham, John Brady, Tony Filipovitch, April Johnson.
We now have a little
complexity in our Chair status. Tony was elected as Chair until the middle of
May at which time Tom Hagen will become Chair. Tom teaches an 8:00 am class at
the University and can not attend the meetings until the end of May.
Tony reported that the $5000
grant is in place for the three activities, the forum, civility training and
community stories.
We discussed the difficulty
of getting opposing speakers on some topics.
Perhaps it is not necessary
to have disagreement but rather a different point of view. Perhaps the title of
a forum might be "The role of railroads in the future" rather than
anything specific of DM&E, or it might be a more informative study of
financing of DM&E.
StoryCorps also received considerable
discussion. Tim will coordinate this sub group of CV to work with Dave Engen.
The other members involved are Mike & April. Was there someone else? Tim
has already talked to Jim Gullickson.
Some of the other people to
involve in the project are Beth Christianson, Jim Nickerson, Mary Dooley and
the
The big hurdle for the
Civility project is "How to get people not engaged in community issues to
do so with civility?" Most people do not become engaged until they feel
threatened. Then they do battle not work to clarify or persuade.
Next meeting is Wednesday,
January 24, 7:30 am at the Coffee Hag.