INC NEWS - proposal for Neighborhood Advocate highlighted inlocal blog...

[Mike - Hotmail]

The proposal was definitely a surprise!

A number of the responsibilities that were presented would include some of the job duties of several long term employees at Neighborhood Improvement Services.

Before moving forward with it,  I'd suggest that City Council consider consulting with Constance Stancil to get her take on it.

City employees like Toya Merritt, Cynthia Mebane-Watts and Lynwood Best (there are others) that are Community Resource Coordinators have been invaluable contacts for not only PAC 2 in years past, but also the InterNeighborhood Council along with other groups in 'connecting' community needs to available resources.

It might be worthwhile to see what they think.

But I agree that there is a need to have a legal resource available to our neighborhoods in dealing with issues other than in NIS.   Recent examples involving several rezonings that have gone against common sense (my opinion) and facilitating the legal right for residents to file Protest Petitions are something that have merit and worth to our community if they can be handled in an objective manner.

Thanks John for presenting it!

Mike Shiflett


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TheOcean1 at aol.com 
  To: bwatu at yahoo.com ; inc-list at DurhamINC.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:23 PM
  Subject: Re: INC NEWS - proposal for Neighborhood Advocate highlighted inlocal blog...


  I was also impressed with that suggestion, that the city hire someone dedicated to dealing with neighborhood issues. 

  Have also been scratching my head about it since Monday night.

  The question I still have no answer for is about the city hiring this employee. If this idea were ever to come to fruition, and the employee is a city employee..... would the employee be beholden to the neighborhoods, or to their employer, the City of Durham?

  I suspect the goal would be more achievable if this individual were hired by the neighborhoods, perhaps with money made available by the city. How could such an arrangement be configured?

  Again, I don't have the answer, but this listserv is an appropriate forum for discussion.

  Bill Anderson



  In a message dated 3/12/2008 12:03:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bwatu at yahoo.com writes:
    http://dependableerection.blogspot.com/2008/03/coffee-with-council.html

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