I'm not convinced that our NRP associations and council members are part of an "overgoverning" problem. Under any future scenario (and most past scenarios), NRP's portion of the city budget will be small. Giving neighborhoods (including their business residents) locally determined control over one percent of the city budget does not overgovernment make.
As far as council ratios go, the idea seems to be neither here nor there. If it makes perfect sense to compare Minneapolis to Austin, TX, maybe we could look to a microcosm of Minneapolis such as, say, Mora, MN, to help us determine the appropriate size for our city council. Mora's council has 4 members who represent 3,200 people. With 382,000 residents, should Minneapolis have 478 council members? Of course not. Likewise, is Mora overgoverned because it has a ratio of 1 council member per 800 citizens, far beyond Minneapolis' ratio? Probably not. If Minneapolis is overgoverned, let's determine this through statistics and arguments that have some bearing on the situation at hand. Dana Bacon Page neighborhood HPDL NRP association board member --- Victoria Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since we insist that everything in Minneapolis be > "proportionate" - we only need 3, plus the Mayor. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
