School Council Meeting Report

It would be greatly appreciated if you could have these things gathered before the meeting on May 24, 2012. Thank you for your time and efforts to make this meeting happen.

The meeting continued with board member Jason Hopp presenting Dr. Matthew Flannery, formerly the principal of Shiloh Hills Elementary School, for a roll call vote to approve him as the new Assistant Superintendent of the WIlson School District. Mr. Hopp spoke for approximately two minutes about the credentials, reputation, and record of quality performance that Dr. Flannery has documented during his time with the district. A five-year contract was approved on an 8-1 vote, with Mr. Martin voting “no”. It may be worth observing that Mr. Martin is known as the “no man” of the current board, and often tows one of the more conservative lines of all board members. One can speculate that he may have felt

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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

The Warsaw Common Council are elected through two different voting systems¬: by the district or an “at large” group. During the 2012-2015 term, on the board there is Elaine Call and Cindy Dobbins, who were both elected “At-large”. Also, there is Jeff Grose, Charles D. Smith, Mike Klondaris, William Frush, and Diane Quance, who were all appointed by the district election. Lynne Christiansen is the clerk-treasure, she is responsible for managing the town’s financial matters. The Mayor of the town council is Dr. Joe Thallemer.

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.

I've decided to do my project on my DRE-098 teacher whose name is Jayce Russell. Mr. Russell teaches at RCC and he does many other things that go with teaching like grading and going to meetings and helping students the best way he can. He said he decided to pursue this career because it let him get the degrees he wanted and he says it takes advantage of communication skills and a chance to help others and make a difference. He believes that by forming relationships in college is you get to meet new people who change the way you think about things and you have similar interest with them. His advice for students is to be open and take advantage of everything that’s offered to the students like the library, the ARC and office hours that teachers

The meeting started off with Public Comments which allowed the public to address the City Council and others on any issues or comments they needed to discuss. Each person got only three minutes to speak, that was their limit. Robert Dahl’s criteria, Effective Participation: all must vote and participate, was really inputted in this part of the meeting. The public really did participate in

On March 7, 2017, I attended a commission meeting in the City of Aventura. The City of Aventura is a council-manager form of government. According to the authors Cheon Geun Choi, Richard C. Feiock, and Jungah Bae (2013) in their article, The Adoption and Abandonment of Council-Manager Government, most U.S. have this type of government, “The form of city government—typically council-manager or mayor-council in the United States—represents the fundamental choice of governing structure by citizens of the local polity,” (p. 727)

The government entity that I interacted with was the Lamar School District Re-2 School Board in Lamar, Colorado. I attended a meeting on February 13, 2017 at Central Office, 210 West Pearl Street. The meeting started at 6:30 PM. I was not able to take part in the meeting because I am not a member of the board, but I was able to take note on what was being discussed and give a report about it to my student body government at my high school.

In October 2016 Speyside created a new Pupil Council called The Senate. The aim of the Pupil Senate is to share pupils’ opinions, ideas and concerns with members of staff. Initially, the group was split into groups to discuss specific topics. The groups met regularly and have begun implementing small changes to improve our school. Last week, The Pupil Senate presented their experience during assemblies.

The meeting was very brief only lasting about twenty minuets. After the meeting I was able to get a picture with to of the three council members. I learned a lot at this meeting and I glad that people are working hard to improve Sylvania Township’s citizens quality of

I attended the Sarasota County School Board Meeting in on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. The School Board holds meetings on the 1st Tuesday and 3rd Tuesday of each month, with the exception of one meeting in July and December (Sarasota County Schools, 2016). After any special presentations and the Superintendent’s report, citizens are welcomed to speak during the “Hearing of the Citizens” (Sarasota County Schools, 2016). The citizens are limited to three-minute speeches to get their topic across (Sarasota County Schools, 2016). This means that speakers need to be prepared because three-minute to get a point across is not very long.

I was very surprised at how many people actually attended the city hall meeting. Normally when you think of government, you assume that the people are less interested in attending meetings. This was especially what I thought would happen given the average amount of people who vote for local laws and political offices. Instead, I was surprised to see many people attending. While most of those who attended were older, there were some younger people as well. In general, the attendees where men between the ages of 40 and 70. Some were dressed professionally for the meeting, while others were obviously arriving straight from work and were dressed in work clothes. There were even a few construction workers present who were still in their day clothes. Most of the women who were present were older. My best guess is that the younger women stay at home with their children while their husbands attend the meeting. There were no children present, which was expected given that city council meetings are meant for adults.

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.