Our Workshop
Wednesday December 14, 2005
This afternoon we held our workshop. Just before we were to begin a torrential rainstorm hit. I heard later that it rained 4.5 inches in an hour. Perhaps because of the rain, more likely because an afternoon meeting doesn’t work when most government officials have a day job, attendance was less than I had hoped. I would have been happy with 20 people and was disappointed with only 13. One positive note was that the Mayor of Kinder said that if people didn’t show up it was not because they didn’t know about it since he had received the invitations and several reminders.
The program is that for the meeting in your Parish, the team registers people and observes and is not the people who actively facilitate. Should there be any strong feelings better that they are handled by someone who is only there for the day.
It was a learning experience in that this was an opportunity for us to see what the local leaders see as the problems, issues and treasurers. Other than problems created by inadequate evacuation routes, a lack of resources to quickly clear blocked roads and the byproducts of an influx of evacuees (I have heard a 10% increase in Parish population), the issues are really those you would expect in any poor rural parish seeking to increase the local standard of living without sacrificing the rural culture they love.
This afternoon we held our workshop. Just before we were to begin a torrential rainstorm hit. I heard later that it rained 4.5 inches in an hour. Perhaps because of the rain, more likely because an afternoon meeting doesn’t work when most government officials have a day job, attendance was less than I had hoped. I would have been happy with 20 people and was disappointed with only 13. One positive note was that the Mayor of Kinder said that if people didn’t show up it was not because they didn’t know about it since he had received the invitations and several reminders.
The program is that for the meeting in your Parish, the team registers people and observes and is not the people who actively facilitate. Should there be any strong feelings better that they are handled by someone who is only there for the day.
It was a learning experience in that this was an opportunity for us to see what the local leaders see as the problems, issues and treasurers. Other than problems created by inadequate evacuation routes, a lack of resources to quickly clear blocked roads and the byproducts of an influx of evacuees (I have heard a 10% increase in Parish population), the issues are really those you would expect in any poor rural parish seeking to increase the local standard of living without sacrificing the rural culture they love.
posted by J Corlss at 7:52 AM
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