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Sustaining Public Engagement

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Sustaining Public Engagement

Resources and case stories to support local agencies move from one-time efforts to a sustaining capacity for public engagement approaches and strategies. 

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A New Strategy for Sustaining Public Engagement?

Over the past year, a Working Group on Legal Frameworks for Public Participation has produced a model local ordinance for public participation as a tool for local agencies to use in committing to inclusive and authentic public participation in local agency decision-making processes.  

The ordinance is the subject of a session at the International Municipal Lawyers Association session yesterday in San Francisco and will soon be published by the National Civic League as part of a larger package of articles and essays.

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Sustaining Public Engagement – Best Practices and Resources

Publications, best practices, reports and other resources to help counties and cities sustain public engagement in local governance over time.

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Sustaining Public Engagement Case Stories

Learn how California local governments are successfully sustaining public involvement in local governance over time.

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Sustained Public Engagement

This agency’s approach is an example of a sustained orientation to public engagement. In other words, the agency has made a commitment to a longer-term, “co-produced” public engagement, developed by the local agency in collaboration with the community. This typically involves developing and adopting a set of principles that commits the agency to effective and inclusive public engagement.

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Three Orientations of Local Government Public Engagement: Passive – Active – Sustaining
This paper can help communities to be more aware of their present public engagement efforts and to suggest approaches that embed public participation into local decision-making.

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