sgusers4的部落格

Source: The Times, Munster, Ind.迷你倉新蒲崗Aug. 01--A Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission committee plans to reintroduce a controversial public participation plan for a vote of the full commission Aug. 29, most likely over the objections of a disability-rights group.An NIRPC ad-hoc public participation committee met again Wednesday with the disability-rights group Everybody Counts, and though progress was made on revising some parts of the plan, it became apparent wide differences remain."We need consistent and meaningful dialogue with public participation; not this nice-sounding stuff," Everybody Counts board member Roy Dominguez said.A vote on the public participation plan was postponed at an NIRPC meeting in May, and the ad-hoc committee was appointed to deal with the concerns of some commission members and Everybody Counts.The public participation plan is required by the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Highway Administration, the two agencies that provide NIRPC with almost all its mass transit and road-building funds. A Federal Transit Administration official cautioned NIRPC earlier this year that comments of disablity-rights advocates l迷你倉出租cally have caught the agency's ear.NIRPC member Goef Benson at Wednesday's meeting said NIRPC understands formulating a public participation plan is about more than just fulfilling federal requirements."The public participation plan is not buses, it's not highways," Benson said. "It's a model for how people talk to one another, participate and get their words heard."The committee and Everybody Counts members went over parts of a proposed 63-page public participation plan Wednesday paragraph by paragraph. Some wording changes were made, and there seemed to be some agreement that notifications for NIRPC meetings and proposed actions have to be improved.However, Everybody Counts Executive Director Teresa Torres made it clear the document still needs to be made more specific. She also said big questions remain about NIRPC's efforts to comply with a 2006 federal court order to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act."We want to know real simple, when will we get answers to the questions we've raised?" she asked.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Times (Munster, Ind.) Visit The Times (Munster, Ind.) at .nwitimes.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉