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Regional Community News - February 3, 2004
"Cooperate locally, win regionally. Cooperate regionally, win globally."
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1. Silicon Valley 26 Northern Calif. Community Colleges Form Collaborative to Close the Digital Literacy Gap -
Campaign Aims to Prepare Graduates to Compete in Global Workforce - PRNewswire (press release)
...In an unprecedented, historical move, 26 Northern California community colleges have formed a collaborative to close the state's digital literacy skills gap and better prepare students to compete in a global workforce. Led by Cabrillo College, the Bay Area Information Technology Consortium (Bay ITC) is a collaborative effort among 26 Bay Area community colleges and high technology businesses dedicated to educational innovation and IT reform. Working with education partners, employers and workforce boards around the Bay Region, ... Bay ITC is adopting the International Computer Driving License (ICDL) to meet its goal of bringing 10,000 students up to an industry defined standard by 2005. ...
2. FOR towns, sharing is not so easy - Boston Globe
... The Hamilton-Wenham Public Library is nothing less than a revolution in local government, a building born of a radical notion: two towns, one library. In a state where cities and towns have proudly gone their own way for centuries, where borders may be porous but town identities remain distinct, working together does not come easy. But as budgets dwindle, and communities thirst for ways to spend less, some are tentatively looking at joining forces. The two-year-old Hamilton-Wenham facility is the only combined public library in the state, although some towns are floating ideas for other joint projects. ... A committee created in 1995 to study possibilities for greater regional cooperation in Greater Boston led to the creation in 2001 of the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, a group of officials from Boston and nine other communities, including Cambridge, Malden, and Quincy. The group has saved money by jointly buying supplies, and members worked together to win a nearly $2 million grant for public safety equipment. But Marc Draisen, executive director for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, which helped create the coalition, said those kinds of arrangements are only a first step. ...
3. NEW Council of Governments to replace Regional Planning - The Capital Times - Madison, WI
Local government leaders are forming a new organization to replace the Dane County Regional Planning Commission, which is scheduled to go out of business Oct. 1. The Dane County Council of Governments will include ...
4. EDITORIAL: Needless friction - Stuart News - FL
... Organizations such as the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council were created to help resolve such problems when they appear, and to consider the regional impact of major projects and how they are zoned. It seems now, however, that regional awareness will have to begin earlier, with each city and county planner. ...
5. TOWNS wary of forming an I-70 group - Summit Daily News - CO
... the idea. "Isn't this what we have the Northwest Council of Governments for?" said Silverthorne Council member Shelia Groneman. ...
6. JOHNSON proposes regional council - North County Times
... Oceanside Mayor Terry Johnson is proposing that the mayors of all nine North County cities meet regularly to work on solutions for regional issues. ...Johnson said in his speech Thursday that some of the North County's problems have been studied to death. He said the solutions are evident but that the region lacks a unified sense of purpose and a clear sense of direction. ... Carlsbad Mayor Bud Lewis said a similar proposal was raised this week during a retreat with the San Diego Association of Governments. ...
7. 250 turn out to support FasTracks transit plan - Broomfield Enterprise
DENVER — It was, with few exceptions, a transit-oriented love fest. Wednesday evening, the Denver Regional Council of Governments held a public hearing on the Regional Transportation District's $4.7 billion FasTracks transit plan. About 250 people showed up. ...
8. COMMUNITY OF FAITH - Atlanta Journal Constitution
(2nd article) ... Regional Council of Churches ... The group's mission is to develop relationships, encourage dialogue and advocate collaboration among Christians in the Atlanta region. ...
9. REGIONAL planning director Tom Tucker dies - Park Hills Daily Journal
... He had been executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission since it was established more than 30 years ago. ...
11. HITS and Misses - Dallas Morning News (subscription)
Cooperation is best route for transit - (complete article)
The 13 original colonies worked better as a team than alone. The Dallas-Fort Worth area's more than 200 municipalities and counties work better that way, too. They demonstrated their belief in that truth on Thursday in Arlington during a meeting to plot the creation of a seamless regional transit system for North Texas. The North Central Texas Council of Governments called the meeting to orient the committees that would recommend financial and institutional structures and legislative action. The meeting followed a regionwide summit that the editorial pages of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News convened in August to promote such a system, and it set a positive tone for a midcourse workshop scheduled for April, before the newspapers convene a second transit summit in August. Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck made one of the most encouraging comments: "It could be hard to sell rail [to Arlington's voters], but I think it could be done." If historically transit-allergic Arlington can be persuaded, anything is possible. A seamless public transit system would reduce air pollution, relieve highway congestion and stimulate the economy. The lack of it would impose heavy costs.
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