Hello All, This is a question for those of you who's projects have a good relationship with your local government. What does that look like? How did this relationship develop? What kind of support or recognition do you receive from your city?
Thanks y'all! Ann the Santa Cruz Bike Church
"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" -- the same goes for local governments (and personal relationships). Be the resource your city officials (and significant others) can count on, not one they avoid. If you are thinking only about yourself, and what you will get out of it -- it is a bad relationship for them. Always make sure you give more than you get.
With that in mind, specifically....
In Salt Lake we attend the planning meetings, offer valet for city events, provide bikes to city fleets, offer countless hours of consulting on all-things-bicycle, provide a volunteer army for bike counts and other events, and the list goes on.
From the city the Bicycle Collective has a contract to receive all the
police bikes, we get courted by the ReDevelopment Agency (RDA) to open up more locations, find out about various funding opportunities, have key people attend our events, and the list goes on.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.bicyclecollective.org
The mission of the Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ann Altstatt annaltstatt@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All, This is a question for those of you who's projects have a good relationship with your local government. What does that look like? How did this relationship develop? What kind of support or recognition do you receive from your city?
Thanks y'all! Ann the Santa Cruz Bike Church
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Bicycle Longmont has a great working relationship with our City Government. I think the most fundamental thing we do is approach every issue with a "How do we work together to make this work for everyone." plus we work our tails off to make all our partners look like rockstars in the community. We don't suck up, we just promote the hell out of the successes. An easy way is to tag everyone you're working with on a project on facebook and twitter. Most people in decision making roles still feel social media is a "black box" and somewhat magical. Which makes us the wizards of social media and they think it's cool when someone in the community hours after the success says - way-to-go Mayor!
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ann Altstatt annaltstatt@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All, This is a question for those of you who's projects have a good relationship with your local government. What does that look like? How did this relationship develop? What kind of support or recognition do you receive from your city?
Thanks y'all! Ann the Santa Cruz Bike Church
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