At 28/03/2010 10:46 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
If the Board wants to "redeem" itself, it will work with At-Large to help deal with our loss of a conduit once the transition happens from official liaison to Board member. Once that transition is complete, At-Large's ability to initiate policy as a constituency will be severely reduced. We will be reduced to reacting through conventional public comment mechanisms. Perhaps At-Large PDP needs its own board-blessed PDP process?
I disagree about our being reduced to only interacting in Public Comment periods. First, we are still a Board Advisory Committee. We need to ensure that when we "advise" the Board, it really is substantive. And given that, we need to *AGAIN* point out that feedback is a necessary part of the process. Not having a Liaison takes all of their excuses away, which at some level, is a good thing. That being said, I would not depreciate the impact of public comment period comments on issues that are not immediately at the stage of a Board decision. These days, they are listened to and a lot harder to ignore than even a year ago. Alan