Comment Card Summary

Community Engagement Meeting Comments From Comment Cards Question: What can the City do to help you (and your community) better participate in decisions? What is working now? What needs to change? January 29: Van Dusen 1. City press releases need a longer lead time-not just the same day! (Even though this may not always be possible). 2. What problems are being addressed by the Community Engagement Report? 3. Will the adoption of the Community Engagement Report mean that neighborhood organizations will have to merge or that neighborhoods will have to merge with the ending of NRP dollars in 2008? 4. “Community Engagement” is NOT limited to input on decisions-ideas come from the community/neighborhood groups as well. 5. Section II, Principle 4: Observations: 6) Neighborhood group participation and leadership is not always representative of the community. True. Solutions? Only a handful of residents show up at meetings and elections. Residents are angry about decisions and fiscal irresponsibility by a small group of board members who are “running the show”. 6. All neighborhoods must be held in equal regard. City Council seems to have power to arbitrarily nix projects/ideas/neighborhood responses. Makes it seem hopeless to participate. Inspections seems to have inordinate power-can be intimidating. City of Minneapolis website is really inscrutable. 7. What if a type of decision doesn’t fit a process that’s now established (the ...