From valerie at vanngroup.com  Thu Oct 14 10:17:20 2004
From: valerie at vanngroup.com (Valerie Vann)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:17:20 -0700
Subject: [OldNorth] City & DCN Calendar changes
Message-ID: <416EB4A0.2A60C6D7@vanngroup.com>

Hello Esther,

Checking the City Calendar today, I was astonished to discover that 
the Neighborhood Associations have been stripped from the calendar.
I finally noticed the following at the bottom, where I only look when
going to add an event:

> This calendar displays official City of Davis events only. 
> For a calendar that lists events for the entire Davis community, 
> please visit the 
> Davis Community Events Calendar 

Going to the DCN calendar, I was confronted with a confusing hodgepodge
of all sorts of stuff, including duplicates of the Davis City Council 
and Commissions; in order to make some sense of it and find what
you're looking for, you have to click on a separate tab for different
categories.

"Civic and Government" displayed Kiwanis meetings & projects, 
plus a Fire Department Open House. In fact, the whole calendar is
dominated by Kiwanis events.

The Official City Calendar displayed a Senior Center sponsored talk
on an election related topic.

Seems to me that as the front line grass roots organizations dealing
primarily with the City Government - from the City Council on down
through the Commissions, as well as formed with city encouragement
and facilitation, provided with staff liaison, meeting in
city facilities, and (apparently) closely monitored by City staff
and official, the Neighborhood Associations could be accommodated
on the main City Calendar as having at least as much "government"
relevance as the events of the Senior Center.

And at the very least, it would have been nice if whoever stripped
the calendar had moved evicted events to the DCN calendar and/or
given us some notice that the DCN calendar was no longer optional
but compulsory, rather than letting us accidentally discover that
all the effort to enter our future meetings and inform people where
to look for up to date info has been wasted and must be done
all over again.

Valerie Vann
valerie at vanngroup.com