Citizens' Forum scheduled Jan. 19
Over the next few weeks and months, you will hear a lot from the record numbers of candidates who are running for office in Oshkosh. It’s important for voters to hear what candidates think, but it’s at least as important for candidates to hear what voters think.
That’s why we have scheduled a citizens’ forum for Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Oshkosh Public Library starting at 7 p.m.
The meeting is open to everyone and will feature an open-ended discussion about the future of Oshkosh. We will begin with two questions:
While there are specific issues that are certain to be debated in this year’s elections, we would like to broaden the discussion to include topics that may not yet have come to the surface, such as how changing age demographics may affect the future of the city.
The meeting is being held as part of the Voter Information Project, which is sponsored by the Oshkosh Community News Network, the Oshkosh League of Women Voters and the Oshkosh Public Library.
One of the goals of the Jan. 19 meeting is to develop information that can be used in the online debates that will begin at the end of the month. We would also like to use the meeting as a way to provide information to citizens about how they can participate in those debates.
The meeting will be moderated by Bill Hare, a vice president at Bemis who is also vice president of the Oshkosh Community News Network.
(This meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 17, but it has been rescheduled so as not to conflict with the Martin Luther King dinner.)
Your help in publicizing this event would be greatly appreciated. If you know of others who might be interested in attending, please forward this e-mail to them.
If you are unable to attend but would like to express your thoughts, you may do so from the Web site of the Voter Information Project. It includes a comments page, which allows anonymous postings.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Miles Maguire
That’s why we have scheduled a citizens’ forum for Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Oshkosh Public Library starting at 7 p.m.
The meeting is open to everyone and will feature an open-ended discussion about the future of Oshkosh. We will begin with two questions:
* What are the parts of Oshkosh that need to be improved?
* What are the aspects of the community that need to be preserved?
While there are specific issues that are certain to be debated in this year’s elections, we would like to broaden the discussion to include topics that may not yet have come to the surface, such as how changing age demographics may affect the future of the city.
The meeting is being held as part of the Voter Information Project, which is sponsored by the Oshkosh Community News Network, the Oshkosh League of Women Voters and the Oshkosh Public Library.
One of the goals of the Jan. 19 meeting is to develop information that can be used in the online debates that will begin at the end of the month. We would also like to use the meeting as a way to provide information to citizens about how they can participate in those debates.
The meeting will be moderated by Bill Hare, a vice president at Bemis who is also vice president of the Oshkosh Community News Network.
(This meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 17, but it has been rescheduled so as not to conflict with the Martin Luther King dinner.)
Your help in publicizing this event would be greatly appreciated. If you know of others who might be interested in attending, please forward this e-mail to them.
If you are unable to attend but would like to express your thoughts, you may do so from the Web site of the Voter Information Project. It includes a comments page, which allows anonymous postings.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Miles Maguire
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