[Vision2020] candidate questionnaire

[Barrett Schroeder]

I was under the impression, from the discussion a few weeks
ago, that the Vision 2020 questionnaire was going to come 
from the actual Vision 2020 list this time.  

I've posted the previous messages below the most recent message.

Barrett


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Bill London [SMTP:london at moscow.com]
	Sent:	Friday, June 16, 2006 2:46 PM
	To:	vision2020 at moscow.com
	Subject:	[Vision2020] candidate questionaire

	does anyone else want to join our Vision2020 candidate questionaire
committee?
	we will be meeting soon (via email) to decide on which races to
include and what questions to ask
	BL 


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Bill London [SMTP:london at moscow.com]
	Sent:	Friday, May 26, 2006 11:53 AM
	To:	Barrett Schroeder; vision2020 at moscow.com
	Subject:	Re: [Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionnaire

	Previous V2020 candidate questionaires have all resulted from a
group of
	people deciding though on-line discussion what races to cover, what
	questions to ask, and then following through.  It was a V2020
questionaire
	since the membership of the group was recruited through V2020
(though a
	message similar to the one I recently sent).

	Schroeder suggests (in essence) expanding the committee to the
entire V2020
	membership.

	I fear that will prove to be unwieldly and a huge waste of time.  I
do not
	want this suggestion to bog down the process and eliminate the
questionaire
	(I have heard too often that this questionaire is useful).  But I am
willing
	to try expanding the process.

	I suggest first establishing a timeline (starting with our end
result).

	election in Nov.
	releasing questionaire results --completed mid-Sept
	questions given to candidates -- first of August
	deciding on questions -- end of July
	deciding on races (which races to include, and assembling list of
candidate
	emails) -- end of June

	Does that work?
	BL






	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: "Barrett Schroeder" <Barrett at hideandfur.com>
	To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
	Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:05 PM
	Subject: RE: [Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionnaire


	> Thanks to Bill London and others for their work on this
	> questionnaire over the years. Maybe this is the year to
	> make the questionnaire an actual product of the Vision
	> 2020 list?
	>
	> In the past the questions have been developed "off list"
	> as suggested here. During the 2005 City election many
	> people were referring to this as the "MCA Questionnaire"
	> and when it was finally revealed who had created it, that
	> title wasn't far off.  It was only the "Vision 2020 Questionnaire"
	> because it was organized by Bill London and because First
	> Step has been willing to post his items on the Vision 2020 web
site.
	>
	> Although anyone may be able to respond to Bill's email and
	> join the "committee" the practical outcome is that only certain
	> people participate, not necessarilypeople who are even active
	> participants on Vision 2020.  Joan Opyr, who is a participant
	> on the list, posted her own questions, which led to some good
	> discussions.
	>
	> I suggest that we make this a real "Vision 2020 Questionnaire"
	> by moving the process of developing questions into the open
	> and onto the list, instead of private emails.  Years ago the
volume
	> of messages on Vision 2020 was much lower and it probably
	> didn't seem practical to have an in depth discussion here. With
	> the volume of messages today, that clearly is no longer the case.
	> The process might go smoothly or it might be contentious, like
	> anything else on the list, but the result will be a true, open and
	> honest product of Vision 2020.
	>
	> There would probably still have to be a way to decide on the
	> final questions, and someone would have to do the legwork of
	> getting those questions to candidates that aren't on Vision 2020.
	>
	>
	> Phil Nisbet (whom we all miss) made some comments on this last
year:
	>
	> "My point is simply that a select group deciding that they are
	> going to frame the debate and acting as a filter without election
	> to do so from the group as a whole is simply not kosher."
	>
	> "Just wondering how it is that without any poll of those of us who
	> are subscribed and members of this open forum, any "questionare"
	> from V2020 or for that matter a V2020 committee to devise such a
	> was come up with."
	>
	> Phil talks about "election" and a "poll". Perhaps the final choice
of
	> questions, after some discussion, brainstorming and mutual
editing,
	> could be made by a simple email vote.  Each person could select
	> their 3-5 favorite questions, and the questions with the most
votes
	> would be the final questionnaire. It might be wise to exclude
anonymous
	> votes, to avoid efforts to manipulate this.
	>
	> I'm sure there are other suggestions on how this could work, and
there
	> is plenty of time before the election.  I think the questionnaire
would
	> benefit from being done in the open and actually representing
Vision 2020.
	>
	> Barrett
	>
	>