Agenda - Council - 11/27/1984 - Laserfiche WebLink

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At the staff level, Council planners are goir~ to invite staff of affected local governments to meet informally to discuss emerging proposals or problems before public hearings are held. In addition, Counil the staff will plan a forum or series of public meetings to provide opportunities for local input. For these meetings, the staff will prepare a discussion paper describing the proposal or problem, and alternative solutions. An example of this approach is the forum on solid waste abatement the Council held this s-mmer at the Chimera Theater in St. Paul. We've set three additional objectives for strengthening our communications with local governments, based on your comments: - To make sure you're notified of Council actions affecting your community or county, we plan to provide for systematic notices. - To provide timely notice of Council meetings, we plan to mail a weekly list of coming meetings, with agenda items, to local governments. We're asking you to designate a "key contact person" to receive the lists and all other official mail from the Council. We also plan to use special envelopes for important notices. - To give you more information about the kinds of technical assistance the Council offers, we're preparing a brochure with descriptions and a list of staff members to contact for help. We also plan to respond to a request that we mail s,,mm~ries of more of our reports to you. Copies of the committee's 11-page report, Improvin6 Communications with Local Governments~ are available free from our Communications Department, at 291-6~64. Now, we need your help to make this work. Please use the enclosed form to designate a "key contact person" to receive all official Council mail, and return it in the enclosed envelope. I'm confident that implementing these recommendations will go a long way toward meeting our goal of establishing stronger lines of communication with the region's counties, cities and townships. Sincerely ardebring Enclosures