What Do You Think
The Community Council Should Study Next?
Each year the Community Council seeks suggestions
from its members, community leaders, and the general public to help
determine the topic for its Study.
Submit
your idea as a question.
Please be very specific with your suggestions,
avoid large topical subjects such as “education”, “air quality”, and
“health care”. Try framing the issue as a question. For example:
rather than submitting air quality in southeast Washington and
northeast Oregon, ask “Is the quality of SE Washington and NE
Oregon’s air deteriorating? If so, what impact will that have on the
region’s quality of life and economic development? What can be done
to make the air cleaner?”
Does your
idea meet the Study Issue Criteria?
Definition and Manageability Is the issue adequately defined so that a Study Committee would have a clear understanding of its assignment? Can the issue be researched and effectively handled by the Study process?
Importance
Is the issue of importance
to the community? Does
it affect large numbers of people on an economic or quality-of-life
basis?
Necessity
Is it likely that other
groups can or will carry out a similar study?
Citizen interest
Is the issue likely to
attract participation from a broad spectrum of members of the
community at large?
Effectiveness
Can the issue be resolved by
reason, based on fact, or are the emotional overtones too great to
permit reasoned analysis?
Timeliness
Will the study provide
guidance for decisions needed now?
Is there enough time to complete the study before community
decisions must be made?