Ordinance Workshops
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The Ordinance Workshop 101 will teach participants the way in which an ordinance wends it's way though City Hall. They will learn the jurisdiction of ordinances, what is the jurisdiction of the City versus the State. They will learn what acts can be proscribe by ordinances. The will learn the procedure by which an ordinance becomes law. They will learn about the code or ordinances, how they can obtain a copy and read and search it online.
The goal is to get people to teach people how to involve themselves in the legislation of ordinances that directly effect their communities.
[edit] Requirements
There are no requirements for participants. They do not need to posses special technical knowledge nor attend prerequisite workshops.
[edit] Goal
- The participant will know the procedures by which an ordinance becomes law.
- Encourage collaboration by exposing participants to the first-hand accounts of citizens involved in legislation.
[edit] Technical Objectives
- The participant will know the jurisdiction of the City of New Orleans and the City Council.
- The participant will know which acts can be ordained by the City Council.
- The participant will know the procedure by which an ordinance becomes law.
- The participant will know how to browse and search the city code online.
[edit] Civic Objectives
- The participant will draw their own conclusions from first-hand accounts of ordinances that were ordained after August 29th, 2007.
[edit] First-Hand Accounts
The goal of the Ordinance Workshop is to introduce collaboration by teaching people through the examples of others. The Ordinance Workshop will not present the participants with a strategy for pushing legislation, rather it will seek to develop presentations by citizens who've worked closely with City Council developing ordinances.
The first-hand accounts will be presented through speakers and video segments. The video segments will display the issue that was addressed by the ordinance and tell the story of it's development. As often as possible, a person who was involved in the development of the ordinance will be available to follow up with their reflections and answer questions of participants.
The choice of the ordinance to feature will be only be limited to ordinances that were introduced after August 29th, 2007. The featured ordinances will be chosen to illustrate different collaboration and negotiation issues, such as unintended side effects, outreach and coalition building, combining of efforts, etc.
