Being a featured guest on The Hamiltonian is nowhere near as glamorous as the picture to the left suggests, however, feedback for 10 Tough Questions has been very positive.
Below you will find a link to the list of people whom I have invited to be a guest, and the status of the invite.
How to interpret the status field:
Featured- means the person accepted and has already appeared
Reply Pending - Have yet to receive a reply to the invite
Declined- means the person declined to participate
Accepted- the person accepted but in progress.
Despite the present status, anyone can choose to participate. They need only to email me.
If you want to see your councillor participate, feel free to email him or her. Contact details are here
To suggest the name of anyone you'd like to see featured, simply email adminhamiltonian@cogeco.ca and provide details.
To view the list, click here
This list will be updated when a status changes.
What, Councilor Duvall is missing the action? Hopefully he reads this blog and volunteers to be a guest. That would be cool, like where's the draft of the Lobbyist Registry by-law?
ReplyDeleteThe Sub-committee tasked with the job of crafting this by-law has a pretty clear and concise mandate in this regard, there must be minutes somewhere so those interested can follow this along.
Finding this documentation on the city web site is an exercise in frustration. Their search engine sucks.
Yes, I agree the city's search engine is crapola.
ReplyDeleteHey Cal, Some names I would like to see added to that list include:
ReplyDelete* Bob Morrow
* Sheila Copps
* Bill Kelly
* Matt Hayes
* Ron Foxcroft
* David Braley
* Steve Paikin
* Lincoln Alexander
* David Christopherson
* Don Cherry
Rick Cordeiro
And what about Downtown Councilor Bernie Morelli, he's not on the list either?
ReplyDeleteThere is a whole city full of folks missing the action MAW.
ReplyDeleteA relatively new group of Hamiltonians, the Hamilton Civic League is meeting tonight
and their mission statement is:
To develop an all-inclusive, non-partisan civic league representing Hamilton community stakeholders to encourage and inspire our community to become informed about local issues, to raise community involvement in local democracy, and to promote accountability, accessibility and transparency in our municipal government.
Tonight's Minutes (for all those searching this city blog in time):
1. Acceptance of the Minutes & Updates from Last Meeting's Action Items
2. How to Get Involved
a. Strategic division of activities - how are we going to accomplish our vision and mission?
i. Volunteer Activities & Coordination
ii. Membership Drive
iii. Partnership Drive
iv. Media, Marketing and Promotion
v. Community Outreach
vi. Fund raising
vii. Surveys
b. What are the "Entry Points"/easy ways to start doing any of these?
c. Current Members - where do you fit?
3. Upcoming Activities/Deadlines
a. Community Events
b. Funding Applications
c. Administrative/Governmental Deadlines
d. Other
4. Other Business
Working Group Meeting 2
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
7:30 p.m. at the House of Dance (145 Main Street East)
And please don't forget to address the Hamilton-Wentworth District Schools Board's invitation to respond to "Draft 2 of the Gender Equity Policy." Deadline is 4:00 p.m., November 02, 2009.
The policy has been titled by one trustee as the "Unlearning Process."
PEACE
People need to get involved with the civic league, as this is an opportunity to engage others in the community.
ReplyDeleteCome to the meeting tonight, be part of the change.
And last, but not least how come first termer Scott Duvall has seemed to have fallen off the radar lately. Vacation time no doubt. He should be on the list?
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