Quorra Community Meeting Report

meetings to debate issues before making a final decision. In handling routine tasks, he was

The meeting agenda included a call to order, roll call, reading of the call, pledge of allegiance, some recognition of county members for service, announcements, and a time for public comment. This happened all within the first twenty minutes of the beginning of the meeting. Then the meeting switched over into having a few appearances, talking about department reports, resolutions in the county, ordinances, annual

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Approximately every four years, high-ranking members of each tribe form public gatherings. The public gatherings appear to be completely random as there is hardly any structure to them. For instance, the number of representatives from each tribe and the location of the gatherings change after each conference. The content of these meetings vary widely as well. Every aspect of Nacirema society is up for discussion at these meetings including natural medicines, monetary regulation, and other various civic issues. At the beginning of these gatherings, all of the tribe officials, the peacemakers, and all of the tribe members that are present stand in lines with their right hands crossing over to the left side of their bodies and collectively chant an incantation that is representative of the tribe. Afterwards, a topic is introduced and every official is given a small amount of time to talk about it. The other officials may comment on what has been said, and for the most part it is peaceful discussion. If the officials talk for too long, or if the discussions get too heated, the peacemakers may step in and change the subject or direct the conversation into

This meeting started late due to a lack of council members and also audience. After, ten minutes a third member arrived and the meeting began, however the council skipped the first half of the agenda and jumped to Communications. Ten minutes after starting Communications, a fourth council member appeared and the meeting started all over to the beginning of the agenda. The meeting started over because the council could not approve the minutes and agenda without meeting its quorum. This kind of sucked the women presenting Communications because she had to repeat herself all over again. Communications consisted the presenter communicating with the board different people that were being appointed to different committees. This committees ranged from Keep Atlanta Beautiful to Water and Sewer Appeals

The City of Whittier has two city meetings a month were the people of the community are welcome to attend. One of their city council meetings was held on April 26 at 6:30pm. The council members are Owner Newcomer, Cathy Warner and Bob Henderson. The Mayor Pro tem is Joe Vinatieri and the Mayor of Whittier is Fernando Dutra. There was a good amount of public attendance, but the attendance died out after recess. Public participation was not effective or really used throughout the meeting. The public comments part of the meeting was where the public’s voice was most heard.

The meeting started at 7:00 p.m. and lasted about 45 minutes. The bored member were five fourth females and two males. Lakota School District Board of Education meetings are held twice a month on the second and the fourth on Monday of each month.

I will make sure that there be workshops where conflict’s and disagreements will be expressed freely as well as making sure that rules are in place as to how everyone can express their disagreements before a conflict occurs.

The gathering, meeting in normal session, likewise took in the police office was encountering issues with the present setup Police Chief Jason Bina reported.

The basic purpose of meeting of a sensible pioneer or supervisor will be on making such a social undertaking which can finish a strategy gainfully and satisfactorily chairmen in an association should focus on making the current get-together to a choice gathering.

I attended the regular monthly meeting and public hearing for the City of New York Community Board No. 1, Queens that was held at the Astoria World Manor, located at 25-22 Astoria Blvd., Astoria on Tuesday, February 16, 2016, at 7pm. According to NYC (2014), the purpose of each New York City Community Board is to encourage the citizens to participate and get involved within their communities, and resourceful organizations of agencies that deliver public services in local communities and boroughs. Furthermore, the specific purposes of the board meeting were to obtain the license to operate an Unenclosed Sidewalk Café, approval for

Things went by quickly and when they had discussions they were in depth and efficient. It seems like a good way to make decisions. All of the council members had an opinion and they were all well informed. The members made points that were valid and could be back up by facts. They all introduced a new perspective to the topic they were discussing.

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.

The president, Chief Jones Okeke, on behalf of the Association, welcomed and expressed his gratitude to every member for joining the meeting from various states in the United States. While thanking the members, he appealed that every member should plan to attend the convention slated to hold on September 29 through October 1, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. According to him, convention is one of the avenues to maintain mutual relationship amongst the greater Awgu people in the united states, and therefore, should not be negated. He further expressed the challenges militating against the greater Awgu people, especially in the area of leadership, which our mutual commitments will provide solution to the challenges. For cognizance of what were

I have never attended a community meeting or any meeting regarding my community therefore, attending this meeting for the first time was a great first experience. I was able to see how a meeting is ran and how the organization works in order to help make improvements in my community. When I went into the office the meeting was being held, I was offered an agenda and other informational forms regarding the meeting. The agenda provided information of how the organization of the meeting would be and who will be going over what topics. The meeting was a timed meeting where Richard Hernandez and Bill Houtt managed on recording to keep data. The issues that were discussed were citizen’s request for city improvements, a short review of the 2016 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) Accomplishments, which is a grant that helps build homes for low income families and was reviewed by Rhonda Haynes a community developer. Lastly, the Sidewalk at Divisadero and Rinaldi, North Visalia citizen report were also discussed by Bill Houtt a member of the committee, and construction issues in N. Visalia discussed by Lt. Brent Abbott.