INC NEWS - DRAFT agenda (and resolutions) for June 27 meeting
pat carstensen
pats1717 at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 20 19:59:10 EDT 2006
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 Durhams 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 Treasurers 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
"Only in the continuous encounter with other persons, does the person become
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.
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