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Colleen: In our practice we often work with Citizen Advisory Committees (CAC's) and have been instrumental in establishing them for some of our projects. We use CACs to do planning, develop programming, evaluate programming, and even to establish locational siting criteria in facility siting projects. I am not aware of any unit of government that can not establish such a committee. However, both the government sponsor and the citizens must remember that these committees are 'Advisory'. No unit of government will, or should, delegate its decision-making authority to a non-elected body. It falls upon the CAC to maintain sufficient credibility and integrity to give its advice weight before the elected officials and it is the responsibility of the elected officials to give the CAC a reasonable charge and the resources necessary for the committee to develop its advice. It is rare that the unit of government adopt the CAC's recommendations verbatim and it is equally rare for the unit of government to totally ignore the advice of the CAC. J W Spear, Sr., P.E. Principal 325 West Vine Street Milwaukee, WI 53212-3605 Telephone (414) 263-2122 Ext. 25 Facsimile (414) 435-3110 Mobile (414) 687-0518 Email jw@no.address http://www.jspear.com What we do today touches seven generations. It is a terrible and dangerous arrogance to believe that you alone are right: have a magical eye which sees the truth: and that others can not be right if they disagree. Isaiah Berlin 1981 The information contained in this electronic transmission is intended for the recipient whose Name and/or Company details are shown after the word "To" at the beginning of this transmission. The content is confidential, and may be legally privileged. It is incumbent upon the rightful recipient to ensure that this electronic transmission is not illegally copied or forwarded to others. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, then please advise us immediately, and delete it from your system. ================== EOM ============ -----Original Message----- From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address] On Behalf Of Colleen Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:42 PM To: GreenYes Subject: [GreenYes] Citizen Advisory Committee My organization is working with our County, local city officials and others to collaboratively create a County-Wide Solid Waste Managment Plan. We would like to clearly lay out the roles and responsibilities of both the crafters (the collaborators, including the County) and the implementers (the County Commissioners) regarding the plan. It looks as if there is no statute or law giving the County the right to designate/convene such an institutionalized group (a Citizens Advisory Committee) whose recommendations would be implemented. The County is in support of this project; they have funded the process described above, but the collaborators are interested in clearly stating rights and roles. What sort of document might be appropriate to dictate roles and responsibilities, ensuring that the recommendations of the committee will be implemented by the County, whenever appropriate, if we are not able to form a legally/technically defined Citizens Advisory Committee? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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