Prioritize: Community Groups Can Improve Area by Reducing Demands on Government

EDITORIAL. The Brownsville Herald. September 1, 2007 - 11:17PM

Municipal government works best when the community is involved. Officials’ jobs are made easier when the people make their wants and needs known — assuming, of course, that those officials are responsive to the wishes of those who elected them.

The public forums held this past week as part of “Imagine Brownsville” should give our civic leaders more information on what direction residents want to take when mapping out the city’s future. Such public forums have been held periodically; indeed, a similar effort Brownsville 2020, has been under way for some time, and, in like fashion, collected public comments regarding their needs and wants. Other forums were held when the Brownsville Community Improvement Corp. was established to utilize one-fourth of a cent of the city’s tax revenue for community improvement projects.

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