Citizens’ Voices Minutes

May 5, 2006

Present: Malda, Tony, Dave, Bill, John, Anne

Note the next meeting on May 19th will still be at 7:30. After that we hope to go to 8:00 am meetings.

We discussed the financing of Regional Forum. Tony thought that URSI could act as the fiscal agent for it. He will talk to Rita about absorbing the work. Most granting organizations require that the recipient have a fiscal agent.

Bill got a resounding negative response to our request to fast track the discussion of the Valley. That is, we were proposing to take it out of the deliberative process of Envision 2020 because of what we perceived to be an emergency due to the County's decision to move the legal activities to the edge of town. This would involve the departure of about 90 employees.

We discussed pursuing other possible activities that might be attracted to the vacated space including some aspect of MSU. More discussion to continue.

Instead of having a meeting on "The Valley", perhaps we should hold meetings within neighborhoods of the neighbors. If people got to know each other, they might invest in additional maintenance as well as assisting each other.

We also need to discuss the continuation of Citizens Voices. What should be our role during the Envision 2020 process? What should we work on afterwards? Is it time to involve people on the Board who have not been involved for all these oh so many years?