Church Meeting Summary

The meeting had preplanned agendas concerning the planning staff and services to citizens. The types of services are residential, commercial, and industrial land use development ordinances. The meeting opened with a prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, call to order, determination of a quorum, to ensure all board members are present and adoption of minutes. The Chairman, Mr. Keith Williams, was the moderator and he was very polite and efficient, by giving citizens and local official the opportunity to speak. The atmosphere was very static, because there were great number of residents there awaiting their chance to speak about a certain zoning agenda (City of Gulfport,

Of course, during meetings, many questions are sure to arise about the same factors. Most people want know what will be done on roadway conditions, what will be done about the cleaning of the parks, etc. One of the biggest, and very surprising, issues brought up recently by the Common Council is a chicken ordinance for Warsaw. In a unanimous vote, the Warsaw Planning Commission has given their approval to allow chickens within the city limits. However, the Council voted “no” on the ordinance that, if passed, would have allowed a select number of residents to raise and maintain chickens on their property inside the city

Council members are reduced to puppets free from public engagement and the Mayor, a celebrity hosting the City Manager/CEO/Ringmaster of a horse and pony circus. The fault lies within the public who is lazy and leave responsibility to a few whom they elect., In sum, the reader astute and informed to acknowledge the scheme of avoiding a vote to secure a fire tax. Now, why would the city be so kind to offer us a Sacred Canaopy to police knowing after the show? The plan to exit police is at hand and deceitful language hides that pertinent fact. Our current charter protected fire, and we know what happened? What difference would a reform embrace? The city spat on the charter and history has a tendency to repeat. The polished silvery tongue wants you to believe our cops are safe. The Charter Reform is the final solution to be led by a Fuhrer imposed by political will who kicks the citizens and cops to the curb. I don't look forward to a police tax, a Futhrer, and shivering my hard-earned dollar to line silk suits and Rollex watches. ( I

I did not see a whole lot of rebuttal happening in the meeting, but as soon as the members voted the audience could see the results on the screen. Often there were a few members who disagreed with the majority vote. The majority vote then decided what the decision for that topic would be. Even if a member who did not agree, and was trying to state their point, majority still ruled in the case.

According to historian Roger Wilkins, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference evoked great passion amongst people. Founded in 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference saw to the greatest movement for civil rights in its era. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and others (Cose, 2004). After the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bayard Rustin saw the influence and realized the powers of protests like these. He wrote multiple papers suggesting that there should be an organization to coordinate and run protests and movements like the boycott.

The experience going to the council meeting was great and I would imagine that the items on the agenda had a great deal to do with that. The topics I found the most interesting revolved around public nudity, serving alcohol in public, spending grant money, a gun ordinance, and polling the public about being taxed. The agenda item revolving around public nudity took up most of the time. Currently, Eureka doesn't have a ordinance in place to give police authority to arrest citizens who are nude in public when it isn't a sexual act. The chief of police gave example of a person doing Tai Chi in a public park nude. The police were called and couldn't do anything short of asking him to put his clothes on. There was concern among a few council members

One thing of significance that I learned about at the city council meeting was meeting procedure. When I first arrived a pre-meeting workshop about annexation was occurring. After the regular meeting began we started with the Pledge of Allegiance. Next roll call of the council members was taken. Dallas Center has five council members: Mike Kidd, David Bagby, Kurt Pion,. Following roll call was an action to approve the agenda, which was approved. Next up was public communications and concerns. I was surprised that each person only has two minutes to talk about all the issues they

The meeting I watched happened on September 12, 2016. I found it difficult to watch because it was so boring, however still very insightful. President McCausland began the meeting with the

It sounded like the board liked him. They went on to approve buying laptop carts for several of the schools in the district, putting wireless in the schools, and replacing outdated computers in the libraries. The district also approved a contract for the bus drivers, and a representative was there to celebrate and thank the board. Besides the concerned citizen he was the only person remotely close to a stakeholder who was at the meeting. For the rest of the meeting the board approved things that we had no access to. They only discussed the district’s policy for about three or four minutes, and it was only to approve a change in wording about discrimination in several

The CODA, Codependents Anonymous group meeting I attended meets every Saturday at 10:15 at the Church of the Resurrection in Tempe. This self-help group is open and homogeneous. It is for women only, is in one of the church’s classrooms, and has a couple rectangular tables and chairs to place as needed for the group size. The date I attended, March 26th there were eleven other women, all Caucasian, ages approximately from early twenties to early sixties. Occupations and status were not discussed. The meeting is absent of a specific leader; instead members are encouraged to take turns rotating who facilitate the meeting.

"Why I Left the Church" by Richard Garcia is a poem that investigates the nature way of religion and the relationship that the innocence of kids has with the congregation of the church. The narrator of this work is having thought over the genuine reason he left his faith. It is an account that blends a realist method of narrating with a twist of fantasy that goes from literal metaphors to figurative metaphors similitudes in the depiction of why the narrator left the congregation.

I chose to attend a city council meeting for this assignment and was very surprised at what I witnessed. The city council served an important purpose and the meeting actually accomplished many important goals. Among the interesting things that I saw at the council meeting were the people who attended, the people who presented, the people who sat on the council, and the subjects that were being voted upon in the meeting.

A reoccurring conflict throughout this case assessment is the mayor’s ignorance to the policies that he is

The meeting continued with the Joint Consent Calendar, the consent calendar is a grouping of routine matters to be acted on in one motion. There were six items considered and recommended actions taken anywhere from issues related to utilities to professional services. At the end of this presentation it was open to public hearing providing any concerned resident an opportunity to speak. This was followed by consent ordinances which city staff members began to speak about Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and its draft citizen participation plan for years 2015-2019. This was followed by an ordinance for the Civic Plaza which would limit the use of skateboards, bicycles, and leashed animals during special events held at this location. Following these issues the council would make a decision which would be placed on record for public view. New business was proposed where an approval of long ranged property management was projected, but they motioned to push this event forward to the next meeting due to the absence of a council member who was more familiar with the issue.

These 8 propositions provide a basis from, which to explore the ramification of public participation, both as a concept and as a decision-making technique. The need of public participation in planning is more clearly expressed by Bolan (1967), “No matter how we improve our substantive knowledge of how cities function, and no matter how we improve our capabilities in information handling, operations research, and prediction, if there is not a corollary development of community’s capacity for improved decision-making within the framework of democratic process, there is the real possibility that heavy investment in the current forms of city planning techniques will have been in vain.”