About LAFCO. Legislative Authority: Established by State Law in 1963, the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) is a regulatory agency with quasi-legislative authority.
(To view the original LAFCO statutes, click here. Note these statutes have been repealed.) While having county-wide jurisdiction, LAFCO is independent of county government. LAFCOs were designed to provide assistance to local agencies in overseeing jurisdictional boundary changes. State Legislatures as "Laboratories Of Democracy" Listening to what passes these days for debates in the U.
S House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, it is easy to get the impression there are no new ideas left-certainly no new progressive ideas or suggestions that there might be solutions to the nation's multitude of social and economic problems. At best, what little energy progressive members can muster is exhausted on efforts to halt the rollback of existing programs. The dimming of the vigor and effectiveness of the national legislature is placing a new focus on state legislators, who for so long were regarded as poor cousins to their national counterparts in Washington. For years, most state legislatures were in session for only a short few months each year or, in some cases, met only every other year. While there remain legislatures not far removed from those practices, a growing number of states have adopted longer annual sessions. For more information about a progressive agenda: www.stateaction.org.
Wcwfaq - World Government of World Citizen - Welcome. Untitled. Inclusion criteria: To be included in this list, a micronation must be able to demonstrate that it has been in existence for a minimum of 12 months.
Micronations whose members publicly advocate the prosecution of acts of criminality will not be listed. Website link: If the micronation is active or inactive, a link to its website is provided. If the micronation is defunct, a link is provided to the following: (i) an archived version of the micronation's website - or if that does not exist, (ii) the relevant Wikipedia article about the micronation - or if that does not exist, (iii) a report about the micronation published by a reliable print media source.
Email: If the micronation lists an email address on its website, it is linked with an If the micronation has no published email address, and only allows form-based communication via its website, no email address is listed. Primary contact: For inactive or defunct micronations, the primary contact is the founder or last known leader. Status: League of California Cities. Promoting Good Government at the Local Level. What is Open311? Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services.
Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized protocol for location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311 systems that many cities in North America offer. Unlike the synchronous one-to-one communication of a 311 call center, Open311 technologies use the internet to enable these interactions to be asynchronous and many-to-many.
This means that several different people can openly exchange information centered around a single public issue. This open model allows people to provide more actionable information for those who need it most and it encourages the public to be engaged with civic issues because they know their voices are being heard. The Open Model. Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source. With more and more civic data becoming available and accessible, the challenge grows for policy makers and citizens to leverage that data for better decision-making. It is often difficult to understand context and perform analysis. “Weave”, however, helps. A web-based data visualization tool, Weave enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time.
We saw tremendous potential in the platform and have been helping open-source the software, advising on community engagement strategy and licensing. Sharing Technology for the Public Good. Write or Call the White House. President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history.
That begins with taking comments and questions from you, the public, through our website. Call the President Phone Numbers. The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes. Open Government Initiative. Open Data Policy Guidance to better manage Federal information as an asset to make it more open, accessible, and usable by the public.
Executive Order on Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information The President’s Executive Order on making Federal Government information more open and accessible to promote economic growth and government efficiency. National Action Plan for the United States of America These Open Government efforts are now entering a new phase, as we collaborate with other countries in the global Open Government Partnership. Informing Consumers through Smart Disclosure. Open Government Initiative Blog. Open Government - Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners, September 1, 2010, Whitehorse, Yukon. Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners September 1, 2010, Whitehorse, Yukon Calls for greater openness and transparency are exerting increasing pressure on governments to transform their traditional, reactive information dissemination methods into a mode that facilitates proactive disclosure.
Furthermore, governments around the world are recognizing the value of sharing information with the public in accessible, open formats. Open Government Innovation. Helping to shape the future of government. Helping cities work better. Startup America Policy Challenge.