Sunday, October 21, 2012
League Resolutions Sub-Committee Meeting
Today I had the chance to attend a meeting at the League of Towns and Cities. It's located next to the State Capital in an old white square building. I went with John Wayne to the Resolutions Sub-Committee Meeting where many city and town managers or government relations liaisons were present. The topic was about the upcoming legislative session and possible 17 resolutions that may be presented to Legislature for consideration. The resolutions are issues from all over the state, where a group or single community wants Legislature to address and fix by supporting the resolution. Following this meeting, I had to prepare the documents needed for when the Mayors had their meeting at the end of August to discuss the Resolutions. It was an eventful meeting because every resolution was discussed, and in the end it with either amended, accepted, or rejected. In the end, all the resolutions were accepted or accepted after amendments were made. John Wayne explained to me that the resolutions were very tame as to what was presented in past years, and most likely all the resolutions will be accepted by Legislature. I'm looking forward to seeing how many are passed.
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The sub-committee meeting you went to seemed interesting and exciting. It’s kind of amazing actually that all 17 resolutions were accepted (even though a few were amended) which shows that there is a real effort to work together to push legislation along. It’s good that AZ has something like the League of Cities and Towns so that municipalities in the same state can work collaboratively on issues that are of importance to all of them. Your internship sounds like a great learning experience!
ReplyDeleteI was always kind of fascinated by the League. With such a start difference between the urban and rural cities in Arizona, it's definitely no small feat getting them to work together. Although by saying that this year's resolutions were tame, I wonder what they would consider a 'wild' one?
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