Meeting Report: Community Meeting Sector Montreal, Mejicanos
Meeting Report: Community Meeting Sector Montreal, Mejicanos
Location: Community house, Iberia
Date: 17/04/09
Time: 18:00-20:00
Main topic: Introduction to Urban Emergencies and distributing the survey
Every Friday a community meeting is held to create a platform for communities to discuss their problems and point them out to the Municipality. The organizational structure is set up with a board of directors for the whole sector (who are leading the meeting), and two spokesmen of any community who are the directors of their community. The municipality is represented by the promotional workers in the Sector: Victor and Hector. Next to the municipality there are two spokesmen of the catholic organization CEFO who worked in the area starting after the earthquake of 1986, [mostly housing.]
The community meeting starts of with the subjects of the previous meeting. The second point on the agenda is the explanation of our Urban Emergencies study followed by the distribution of the survey. Not every community is present at the meeting which makes it difficult to distribute the survey to all the intended communities. We give out an envelope with 30 surveys to the communities of Buenos Aires, Artiga, Veracruz, Iberia and Finca Argentina, and an envelope of 20 surveys to the Willington community.
While the directors and the municipality try to get all the directors to the meeting, not everybody shows up. Illustrative is the presence Buenos Aires, who attends for the first time to the meeting. After they get applause for their first attend, the sector director, Victor Perez and CEFO all give their personal appreciation to this attend. The repetitive appreciation shows how young and fragile the organization of the sector still is.
Next to the directors of the Buenos Aires community, there are four other men from the community. Their intention for this visit gets clear after we distributed the survey and the communities get the chance to point out some of the problems they have to deal with: A lower part of Buenos Aires has a problem with grey water that comes from houses at the upper part. The four present men are affected by this problem and made a plan of how to solve this problem, but the community is in need of money from the municipality to be able to carry out this plan. It seems the community is attending for this reason, reactionary to the problem.
After the discussion of this problem Victor Perez wants us to leave the community meeting, he doesn’t make clear what the exact reason for our early leaving is.
Location: Community house, Iberia
Date: 17/04/09
Time: 18:00-20:00
Main topic: Introduction to Urban Emergencies and distributing the survey
Every Friday a community meeting is held to create a platform for communities to discuss their problems and point them out to the Municipality. The organizational structure is set up with a board of directors for the whole sector (who are leading the meeting), and two spokesmen of any community who are the directors of their community. The municipality is represented by the promotional workers in the Sector: Victor and Hector. Next to the municipality there are two spokesmen of the catholic organization CEFO who worked in the area starting after the earthquake of 1986, [mostly housing.]
The community meeting starts of with the subjects of the previous meeting. The second point on the agenda is the explanation of our Urban Emergencies study followed by the distribution of the survey. Not every community is present at the meeting which makes it difficult to distribute the survey to all the intended communities. We give out an envelope with 30 surveys to the communities of Buenos Aires, Artiga, Veracruz, Iberia and Finca Argentina, and an envelope of 20 surveys to the Willington community.
While the directors and the municipality try to get all the directors to the meeting, not everybody shows up. Illustrative is the presence Buenos Aires, who attends for the first time to the meeting. After they get applause for their first attend, the sector director, Victor Perez and CEFO all give their personal appreciation to this attend. The repetitive appreciation shows how young and fragile the organization of the sector still is.
Next to the directors of the Buenos Aires community, there are four other men from the community. Their intention for this visit gets clear after we distributed the survey and the communities get the chance to point out some of the problems they have to deal with: A lower part of Buenos Aires has a problem with grey water that comes from houses at the upper part. The four present men are affected by this problem and made a plan of how to solve this problem, but the community is in need of money from the municipality to be able to carry out this plan. It seems the community is attending for this reason, reactionary to the problem.
After the discussion of this problem Victor Perez wants us to leave the community meeting, he doesn’t make clear what the exact reason for our early leaving is.
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