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Example of Advocacy Issue Format and Procedure:
Below is an example format for an advocacy issue to be presented to the Advocacy Committee for consideration by LCON membership. Please use this or a similar relatively short format for presenting issues for consideration.
Suggested steps for LCON Advocacy Issues Proposals:
1) Write a short proposal.Neighborhood groups, individuals and organizations concerned with neighborhoods issues are urged to write short proposals of neighborhoods issues they want brought to the LCON membership.
2) Email us a copy of the proposal. Please send email copies of these proposals to the LCON listserve at louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com. If you are not registered for the email listserve, please go through the sign up process at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Louisville_Neighborhoods/join and then post your email proposal. Our term papers are original and created only for each unique customer.
Please put "Advocacy Issue: (and the title of your issue)" in the header of the email and the top of the proposal. Please also bring a written copy of your proposal to the Advocacy Committee meeting if you attend, with several copies so members can read it there.
If you have difficulties posting your email proposal to the louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com listserve, please send a copy instead as well to David Silverman at communicas@communicas.com along with a description of the problem you are having. We will post it for you if need be and try to address any posting problems you have.
3) Come to the Advocacy Committee Meeting. Meeting Dates are posted on the list serve and on this website Calendar.
If possible, let us know you want to be on the agenda for a particular meeting. To be put on the agenda or if you wish to learn more about the Advocacy Committee process or wish to propose present issues in other ways, please contact John Baker at Johnbaker@bellsouth.net.
4) For quick action: Neighborhood Action Alerts. If you wish to notify us of an issue that requires immediate action before an Advocacy or General LCON meeting date, please issue a Neighborhood Action Alert. This can be sent to all members via the email listserve at louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com. Please label the email "Neighborhood Action Alert: ( Your Issue)". In this way, LCON members can learn about and respond to fast breaking issues which will be deliberated later through the advocacy Committee process. Click here to see examples of Neighborhood Action Alerts and Notices.
Example Issue Format
September 6, 2002
Submitted by: John Baker, Clifton Community Council
Advocacy Issue: Transportation Investment
Position: Support for comprehensive regional Light Rail infrastructure as defined by the 6 TARC T2’s long-range corridors. Support for CART’s "Public Transit First" position (see below).
Justification: Transportation infrastructure investment is the most important factor in social and economic development. Interstate investment is destructive to neighborhoods and promotes sprawl. Light Rail promotes smart growth, neighborhood investment, and economic justice.
Public Transit First
A transportation policy for Kentuckiana candidates
Current regional transportation plans call for adding additional lanes to I-64, I-65, I-71,
I-264, and I-265.
Recognizing that continued interstate widenings results in even more induced traffic;
recognizing that continued interstate widenings negatively impact the quality of our neighborhoods and public health;
recognizing that continued interstate widenings encourage the suburban development of farmland and woodland;
recognizing that continued interstate widenings exacerbate the degradation of the urban center;
recognizing that continued interstate widenings focus on moving vehicles rather than on moving people;
recognizing that a regional public transit system, supported by bicycling and pedestrian facilities, can enhance regional transportation; and
recognizing that, in the past 20 years, the region has not invested in public transit as it should have;
I support investing in a regional, efficient, reliable, affordable public transit system before investing further in the widening of the region's interstates.
Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation (CART)
222 South First Street, #200, Louisville KY 40202
589 2278
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