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  1. From an RNO Collaboration stand-point. Some of us are attempting to form Neighborhood Coalitions to align with the Planning Areas of the Neighborhood Planning Initiative.

    For example: I’m heading up the formation of the East Central Area Neighborhoods Coalition.
    The idea is to allow better communication between the RNOs and help facilitate the distribution of information from the City to the Residents & Business Owners.

    For example, here are posts about the Safe Outdoor Sites. Goal is only to share info.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECANcoalition/status/1327749485645086720?s=20
    Nextdoor: https://nextdoor.com/post/167499419?init_source=copy_link_share
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Neighbors4CapHill/posts/376887980322682

    Also created a group on Microsoft Teams to allow people to meet both formally and informally for FREE! Here is the Link for the East Central Area Neighborhoods (ECAN) Coalition.
    https://teams.microsoft.com/join/3al72h52bwnc

  2. Glad to see this effort underway.

    I suggest that neighborhood surveys be included as a explicitly recommended means of getting input. This is why:
    — Meetings are typically held at just one time and place. Often, some cannot attend at the specific date or time meaning that they are not represented at the meeting. Often this includes working people on long day or night shifts.
    — Surveys can be done cheaply now and can be open over a week or two, giving more people time to “vote.”
    — Surveys can be promoted via e-mail, social media, community websites, postings, bulletin boards, signage, texting, phone calls, door-to-door notes, etc. to ensure more people participate.
    — Survey tools are now inexpensive [Google forms survey is free] and some prevent multiple responses [e.g. Survey Monkey] The City could buy an account for RNO use.
    — Surveys give clear hard % votes for/ against/ abstain AND allow space for open ended comments.
    — Surveys can be anonymous or set up to collect voter names as desired for follow-up.
    — Surveys avoid the “loudest shouter” in the room, social pressuring, etc. effects that can distort meeting results.
    — Surveys can include clear written statements of issues, links to unbiased resources, etc.
    — Survey results can be easily published and stored for the record.

    • I agree with Bill’s points.
      Even including that “Survey” as a means for a Ballot Election. Perhaps requiring that Ballot/Survey to be open for at least a week.

      Along those lines, membership is open to any resident, but what about those members joining the Board of Directors? How does a member get on the board? In my experience, it is being selected and then interviewed by the current president. The president then presents the selection to the rest of the board. This doesn’t seem very democratic.

      We need to have some form of required language in the By-Laws making it possible for any member to serve on the board, unless they lose in a vote/survey of some kind by the membership.

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