Live ‘Blog: April 13th IFC Community House Meeting
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Quick notes on this evening’s final IFC Community House public meeting prior to the IFC submitting a SUP (special use permit) to Town Council.
IFC is the Inter-Faith Council, a 501c3 non-profit, has provided a broad range of social services (list) over the last few decades, many of which, like emergency housing, are the really the responsibility of Orange County and other governmental bodies.
Our community is blessed to have such a caring and strongly supported organization as the IFC working on our behalf.
As of 7:45pm, 83 members of the public and about a dozen IFC staff, board members and support staff.
Council members attending: Laurin, Matt, Jim.
Previous attendees and other “usual suspects” : Mark Peters, Fred Black, Josh Gurlitz, Terri Buckner, Tim and Tina Coyne-Smith.
Phil Boyle, facilitator: “this is not a public meeting this is a community meeting that the public is invited to…”
Woman in front row: “What about taxes?” Phil: ” This isn’t a government meeting, you need to take taxes up with the Council.”
The process for the meeting seems a bit strained – too much overhead – too much reading of the riot act and not enough time allocated for interaction, question/answer and group responses.
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