Comments on: Young Somerville Advisory Group http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/11/11/events/young-somerville-advisory-group-2/ An independent, open forum for reports and opinions about life in our city. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barry Rafkind http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/11/11/events/young-somerville-advisory-group-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10184 Barry Rafkind Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:10:30 +0000 http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=3660#comment-10184 Thanks for sharing this info, James! While I think it's great that the City is proactively promoting this form of civic engagement, I have a few concerns as well from reading the group's website: 1. Why are the meetings closed to the public? To me, this flies in the face of transparency. 2. Why does this group exclude adults age 18, 19, and 20 who have the right to vote? And how was the range 21-35 chosen? 3. Why are there only two meeting reports available on the webpage? 4. The group has several stated goals, but no metrics to quantify progress. I hope we'll hear more on this blog about the group's activities! Thanks! Thanks for sharing this info, James! While I think it’s great that the City is proactively promoting this form of civic engagement, I have a few concerns as well from reading the group’s website:

1. Why are the meetings closed to the public? To me, this flies in the face of transparency.

2. Why does this group exclude adults age 18, 19, and 20 who have the right to vote? And how was the range 21-35 chosen?

3. Why are there only two meeting reports available on the webpage?

4. The group has several stated goals, but no metrics to quantify progress.

I hope we’ll hear more on this blog about the group’s activities! Thanks!

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