Neighborhood Work: Contacts/resources

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I have a small suggestion that may work for many people. We all live in neighborhoods, usually made up of at least several blocks. It seems to me that it would be useful to set up neighborhood meetings/groups to plan for mutual and individual support. These groups could then send representatives to network with larger regional groups. I think that the neighborhood idea is a good one and can best see to the needs of all members in our individual communities.

Samantha Kaswell
samantha@efn.org


Good thought, Samantha. Our local Neighborhood Association Contacts for Eugene can be found at http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/neighbor/home.htm. This is our Neighborhood Program Internet Site. On it are listed the Neighborhoods, the Chairpersons, their phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and the regular meeting times and places for the neighborhood organizations.

The City of Eugene's neighborhoods are chartered into law. They exist formally. They have structure, and voting processes, and a number of very useful citizenship tools that allow people to have a strong say in what happens in their community.

The time to build these organizational groups is now, before there's a crisis that will force community leaders to take action that may be too fast to get strong public mandate or agreement upon without violating peoples' rights and destroying the current relative equanimity of our city and region.

cynthia
cabeal@efn.org


Let's not forget the important work to be done at the neighborhood level. I have a commitment from Alan Wilm, Churchill Area Neighbors, to include y2k as an agenda item in January. How about the other neighborhood assosications? Call or email your rep, and ask that this topic be included at the next meeting. And don't forget your city councilor's and county commissioner's.

Working together we can make a difference. Thank you all for your efforts.

Lisa
LBCassidy@aol.com

-- Lisa (LBCassidy@aol.com), December 24, 1998

Answers

Community Meetings? I went to my first Active Bethel Citizens meeting. I was given the oportunity to introduce myself and hand out a General Information, Y2k pamphlet. I was told before the meeting, not to have a discussion. I was inundated with questions, which I answered. I included my phone number and email address on the back of the pamphlet. I have had ZERO responce. Oh well, its only Wednesday.

I will now formally request a Y2k discussion for the next meeting's agenda. I will keep you informed. If anyone wants to get started planning contingencies, please email me or call me. 688-7303. We are running out of time folks.

-- Richard Bloom (rfbloom@uswest.net), January 07, 1999.


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