key issues: Early Notification System / monitoring delivery of city services

May 1 – 15, 2013

Session VII Worksheet

• Should an ordinance requiring commissions and the city council to provide enough notice to enable neighborhood councils to provide advice on critical issues be enacted? How much time constitutes adequate notice? Who will determine what issues are most critical to neighborhood councils?
• Should the recommendation allowing neighborhood councils to initiate council files be revisited?
• Should some official process for neighborhood council review of the delivery of city services be established? Should that process be in the form of an ordinance or memorandum of understanding with city officials and departments?
• Does the current Community Impact Statement(CIS) process provide adequate means for neighborhood councils to express their local needs and fulfill their advisory role? What improvements to the CIS process, if any, would help neighborhood councils better fulfill their mission?
• Are there other issues involving neighborhood council operations that should be discussed? What are they?