INC NEWS - DRAFT agenda (and resolutions) for June 27 meeting

[pat carstensen]

AGENDA
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham
Monthly meeting on Tuesday June 27, 2006
7-9pm in the Community Room
HERALD-SUN Building (2828 Pickett Road)
Directions: http://www.durhamINC.org/meetings.html
Refreshments are provided

Welcome and Introductions (10 min)	    Mike Woodard, President

Discussion Items / Presentations
q Durham’s Brand (60 minutes)	-- Reyn Bowman
q Service Delivery Standards and One-Call (10 minutes) – See Appendix A
q Chaining of Dogs (10 minutes) – See Appendix B
q Davidson Street Rezoning (10 min)
q Neighborhood Mini-Grants from Durham  Affordable Housing Coalition

Updates  (15 min)

q Minutes and Treasurer’s Report
q Neighborhood Hero Awards
q Nominating Committee
q Other updates and new business

Announcements / Events (5 min)

q Festival for the Eno – July 1, 2, 4

For additional information, contact Mike Woodard at mike at mikewoodard.com
To update information on your neighborhood, neighbors at durham-cvb.com or 
680-8328

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and remain a person.
The place of this encounter is the community"
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Attachment A: One Call Resolution

Whereas: Citizens need a way to monitor their service requests made to
Housing, Zoning, Solid Waste and other city/county departments, and get 
discouraged when the work isn't completed

Whereas: When service requests become lost in the system, there may not be 
follow through,

Whereas: Unified call systems are an important way to get a "report card" on 
the effectiveness of city services.  That is, if there are standards -- for 
example, how long it takes to handle requests -- and we monitor how well 
they are met, citizens will have assurance that requests are being handled 
in a timely fashion and will know how long to wait before following up on 
requests.

Whereas: This monitoring is equally important for county and city/county 
departments, such as zoning.

We resolve that: Durham One Call organizes "Service Delivery Standards," for 
consistencies in city/county departmental service performances and to allow 
citizens to monitor such performance of service requests through the system. 
Furthermore, we propose that the County be strongly encouraged to join the 
Durham One Call program in order to make county functions easily accessible 
to the entire Durham community.

Attachment B: Dog Chaining Resolution

Whereas:  The practice of chaining dogs can be destructive to communities 
because dogs become more aggressive and dangerous when not adequately 
socialized.

And, because barking is increased due to boredom and sadness.

And also, increased strain is put on Animal Control and Durham Police 
Department Personnel who must deal with citizen complaints pertaining to the 
problems associated with chained dogs.

Whereas, Durham County currently has guidelines [Section 4-62 (6)] as to how 
a dog can be chained or tethered but is inadequate in protecting dogs and 
unsuccessful in allowing animal control officers to efficiently enforce and 
sufficiently punish those that break the law.

Whereas, this practice of chaining dogs is considered to be inhumane, cruel 
and callous.

Therefore, we, the member neighborhoods of The Inter-Neighborhood Council 
resolve that Durham County adopt an ordinance that completely bans the 
continuous chaining of dogs at any location within the County and for any 
reason.