NorthWest Carrollton

now that I have your attention

This was sent to me in an e mail

It is important that folks go to either the July 30 meeting or the Aug 1 meeting if they are interested in indicating a preference for a Technical Assistance Team for District 3. I’ll be facilitating and as I understand it, pre-_registration is strongly encouraged and you will only be able to vote if you attend one of the meetings. This is not a perfect process, but the coordinators have tried hard to balance so many issues of timing, potential fraud, etc. Please see the schedule below:

Monday, July 24, 2006   Information about the neighborhood/planning team alignment process will be placed on the project website www.unifiedneworleansplan.org and disseminated directly to community organizations.

Sunday, July 30, 2006 A city-wide meeting will be held from 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm. The site is to be announced. This meeting will begin the process for community members to be involved in the selection of the technical assistance teams of professionals to support them in neighborhood, district and city-wide planning. Attendees will meet with others from their district to establish criteria for working with the assistance teams, decide if they want to work as a district or establish smaller geographical areas or projects within the districts and define the boundaries for those projects. The public is encouraged to attend. Refreshments and childcare will be provided. Pre-registration is urged, and citizens can register to attend by visiting the project website at www.unifiedneworleansplan.org or by calling the project phone line at 504-522-7065.

Tuesday, August 1, 2006    A second meeting will be held allowing to residents to interview the Technical Assistance Teams. The site is to be announced. Participants will be able to visit information tables for each of the teams to ask questions from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm.  Beginning at 6:00 pm, each of the teams will be conduct formal presentations.   Each team will present twice from 6:00pm until 9:00pm allowing participants enough time to listen and ask questions.

By Friday, August 4. Following this meeting and until 5:00pm on Friday, August 4, participants will have the opportunity to select their top three teams.  The vote is individual, though residents from a district may certainly meet together and discuss their potential choices. Still, only one vote per individual.

August 6     August 11, 2006  Concordia and the New Orleans Community Support Foundation will define a proposed scope and fees for each of the planning projects. Planning teams will then be assigned based on residents' preference, capacity and cost.

August 14  August 18, 2006  District/Neighborhood planning projects will be launched.

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