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Regional Community News - January 27, 2004
"Community precedes cooperation. Regional community makes regions work."
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One of the current major question marks hanging over the desirability of a North-East Regional Assembly is whether it would have enough power to make it worthwhile. The current proposal is that an assembly - should the region vote for one in October - would have strategic input in areas such as transport, housing, control of the regional development agency One NorthEast and the fire service. Many believe this is not enough....
2. "Peace, stability and democracy - common challenges for the future of Africa" Gerhard Schröder - Addis Ababa - EuropaWorld
...Germany, and indeed Europe, wants to be an honest partner of the people of Africa as they embark upon this journey, a partner who works together with them to achieve regional cooperation, peace and sustainable development....
3. NEW hope for regional cooperation - maybe - Seattle Times
The question whether Bob Drewel will make a difference as the new executive director of the region's premier government council has been answered in less than a week. Drewel has made a difference already and will make the alphabet organization - the Puget Sound Regional Council - a bully pulpit for regional cooperation and change.... The PSRC is the funnel. In addition to collecting lots of facts about the region, it is the federally required dispersal agency for federal funding. Its role, as a background player and brain bank for local governments, is sometimes under attack when local priorities take over for regional ones. But for decades, the council has acted quietly, in a nonpartisan way, to provide expert advice to policymakers....
... The real objective behind sustainable communities and regional planning is to restructure government by taking clearly defined political boundaries represented by elected (and locally accountable) officials and incorporating them into larger intraregional councils run by non-elected bureaucrats who are not accountable to local authority.... Note: The piece - a letter - has many links to sustainable development, which the author questions.
Arab businesses must partner with regional governments and take the initiative to promote an Arab Renaissance to enhance competitiveness and integrate with global economies said Mohamed Ali Alabbar,...
Calaveras County supervisors will try again Monday to agree on road impact mitigation fees for the county. ... The ordinance would also call for the Calaveras Council of Governments, the agency overseeing creation of the RIM fees, to establish a new tax to help pay for ...
... It's going to be big," said John Singlaub, who heads the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. "If it was just one development in isolation, that would be one thing. ...
8. India to get a look at Windows code? CNET News.com
India may soon become the latest Asian country to gain access to the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system. ... the program could be an attempt to combat the spread of the Linux OS, which has an open-source code policy and has been steadily gaining momentum among regional governments.
India may soon become the latest Asian country to gain access to the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system. ... the program could be an attempt to combat the spread of the Linux OS, which has an open-source code policy and has been steadily gaining momentum among regional governments.
... Beginning in May, people from around Indian River County will be asked to give their opinions about what type of future they envision for the area. This "visioning" process is being run through the Indian River County Metropolitan Planning Organization ... "We don't want it to be perceived that transportation is driving it," said Keating. Instead, he said, officials want it to be a discussion about what people want the county to look like in 25 years. Region: Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council
10. Unrest plagues regional board - SEMCOG faces lawsuit, reform demands from critics - Detroit News
... the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, one of the most influential, and least understood, entities in the metro area. What began in the 1960s as an effort to coordinate regional planning has evolved into a quasi-governmental agency responsible for distributing $1 billion a year in federal transportation money and for drawing up long-range plans for everything from road projects to water quality to school funding. Now, SEMCOG is under attack from some of its own members, who say rural counties like Livingston and Monroe are overrepresented on the board, while urban and suburban transportation, economic development and environmental priorities go unmet....
... Mayor Bill Beck ... has ties with the business community and with neighboring governments. ...
Vice Mayor Scott Howson is the conscience of the city for, through his long service, he has the ability like no other to put issues in perspective. Always a positive force, even through years in purgatory, he is the transportation expert, serving on many regional transportation bodies. To region and local links:
... the mayors agreed at a meeting in Armidale to work together to bypass recommendations in the Vardon report that favoured formation of a regional council. ...
... Each strategy the Council explored involved at least an hour of brainstorming ... category was racked with goals such as forging partnerships with area governments... Region: North East Georgia Regional Development Center
... Johnny Griffin, director of the Wilmington Regional Film Commission, says the latest program in Wilmington will prove to Hollywood the South can handle more TV shows. ...
... formed in 1997, the Finksburg Planning Area Council has been the voice for residents, and it now has representation on the Carroll County Council of Governments ...
Rebuffed last week by the Texas Attorney General's Office in its request for an investigation into the whereabouts of surplus federal property given to the sheriff's department, Smith County commissioners could vote Monday to hire a forensic accountant to help sort out lingering questions.... Region: East Texas Council of Governments
... "The way I define regional planning, there is none going on right now in the Charleston region," said Tim Keane, director of planning and neighborhoods in the city of Charleston. "Regional planning, to me, is let's ask the community at a regional scale how this place needs to be growing, then make some decisions at that scale that we all work toward implementing. That does not happen," he said. ...
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