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Advocacy and Issues Working Group Documents and Brief Reports
9-26-02 Advocacy Minutes
AdvocacyAgenda92602.doc
Advocacy Minutes September 9, 2002 Please take a look at these minutes for issues under development. Those issues reviewed and forwarded to the LCON general meeting are listed below:
Issues Drafts Forwarded:
Issue 1 Light Rail and Transit
Issue 2 Sustainable Development Councils
ISSUE 3 Energy Efficient Mortgages
Issue 4 Sustainable Neighborhood Agriculture
Issue 5 State Legislative Advocacy-
ISSUE 6 Health Care
Advocacy Minutes August 26, 2002
Advocacy Brief Report March 2002
Advocacy Survey 9-02 Draft
Initial Draft 8-20-02 Letter regarding GLI (Greater Louisville Inc.) Data and Alternative Sustainable Data Sources Summary (Communications Working Group)
Please note that the following reports are from discussions and do not represent decisions of the Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods.
Brookings Institute Report and LCON Responses
March 2002 Report
Issues for the Advocacy Group: from Doug Lowry re: 3/25 meeting
What Advocacy Means for this group: delivery of appropriate impact on government structure, policies, and decision-making processes with close range accountability for providing both basic and additional services in an efficient, cost-effective way. Excellent windows phone 7 development content
Need a strategy to make this happen and take advantage of the urgency and timing needs at hand (elections especially)
What the above might look like:
Forums, Debates, Presence at Public Hearings, PACs
Information and Referral, Dissemination of Information
A structure that allows neighborhood groups to speak to and inform the entire coalition
A decision-making process to ask the coalition to determine and act on levels of action or support for a proposed action on behalf of a neighborhood or group of neighborhoods
Need criteria to determine how issues rise to the level of the coalitions advocacy resources
Need to define this broad group's relationship to the other broad groups in the coalition
Discussed fracture lines vs.. common denominators and the need to develop "core" issues but also recognize and assist with others cluster or regional issues; discussed how to address issues that are distinctly neighborhood level and those that are unique to a particular neighborhood Look at this cheap dedicated vps to acquire
Need the advocacy group to act as both a filter and a refiner of issues
Identified likely issues by place in the county: poorer neighborhood areas were discussed and their lack of time and financial resources that at times impact their ability to advocate on their own behalf.
Discussed low incidence of "congealing" of neighborhood-like entities in the county and the fact the suburban cities have less steps to go access resources for service needs
Discussed that we are all "county" residents, but that city resident have more steps to go and a bigger pot of resources to draw from, but that the bigger the pot is the more " bureaucracy" develops to administer it. The more densely populated the district, the more legislative aides are needed especially for city neighborhoods, to ensure they get needed attention Bathroom ideas photos.
Discussed what a "department of neighbor hoods "designed to help support our coalition might look like in a merged gov’t and
discussed some other non-traditional models including going to Tricon, UPS and other moneyed local business to fund the coalition and help structure resources to benefit neighborhoods with less obstacles in the actual delivery of services.
Talked about asking a university to help house and structure the organization and assist in effective bundling or resources to get neighborhood services and projects funded and completed.
Discussed the concept of discretionary funds vs. more people ( legislative aids) to meet each districts needs. The impetus of discretionary funds is to prompt and promote local prompt response form government to neighborhood level needs.
What does the counterpart of a neighborhood look like in unincorporated Jefferson county?
Discussed and listed some of the functions that the current neighborhoods dept is supposed to do but now some it doesn’t do too well. Discussed that part of the reason is that neighborhood groups became dependant on the department to do their work for them and became the mayor’s mouthpiece.
Need to talk about economic development at the neighborhood rather the corporate tier level
Listed a number of standard issues to advocate about (civilian review board, transportation-light rail, schools, etc) talked about basic county services
Long discussion about strategy and the need to look for commonness among neighborhoods versus looking realistically at the real differences between these three main kinds of entities.
Suggested looking at models of how to incorporate these three areas in eth structure of advocacy in recognition of their differences
Suggested speaker for future meeting
In response to an invitation to " meet with Jerry Abramson" Discussed giving ok to meet with Jerry Abramson or to have him meet with us: what to do about other "candidates" for this office etc.
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