Re: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Former Chanute Air Force Base RAB cuts meetings to twice a year

["frank anastasi" <franksbiz@his.com>]

Lack of cleanup/closure activity notwithstanding, holding RAB meetings only
twice a year does not promote effective community involvement based on my
first-hand observations. Any member of any board or group that meets in the
evenings, on a voluntary basis, invariably has a conflict that interferes
with attendance sooner or later. Missing just one of only two annual
meetings leaves the member out of touch for an entire year. And it means the
RAB misses out of that person's contributions for an entire year.  You can
easily develop a problem sustaining progress. When the follow-up that was to
take place "at the next meeting" fails to materialize for whatever reason,
you have a one-year delay from when a question got asked to when it gets
answered. I think reducing a RAB to less than three meetings per year should
be avoided unless the community has just lost interest.

Frank Anastasi
Community Technical Advisor     

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Subject: [CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Former Chanute Air Force Base RAB cuts
meetings to twice a year

Restoration Advisory Board opts to cut meetings to twice a year

by Tim Evans
Rantoul Press (IL)
December 10, 2013

The former Chanute Air Force Base Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) cut the
number of its meetings from four times a year to twice a year at its Nov. 21
meeting held at the Rantoul Business Center.

Paul Carroll, Base Realignment and Closure environmental coordinator for
RAB, said the group had rejected dispersing. Board member Dr. Ian Wang
called changing the meeting to twice a year "reasonable," and noted the
group could always hold special meetings if desired.  
Village Administrator Bruce Sandahl agreed, basing his decision on a report
by Howard Sparrow of Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., which now owns Shaw
Environmental, that things are "slowing down."

RAB member Deb Rawlings acknowledged that if board members had any concerns
they could contact officials.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rantoulpress.com/print/1229110

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of
the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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