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Annual Meeting Today
Thursday, October 29
Doors 5:00 | Program 6:30 - 7:30 | Reception to follow
Pantages Theater and Seven Restaurant
710 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
Driving and transit directions, parking information
The Annual Meeting is free and open to all.
We are no longer taking pre-registrations for the Annual Meeting, but we would love for your to attend. If you haven't yet signed up, you can register at the door.
If you would like to see the Naked Civics program but can't make it tonight, follow the Livecast starting at 6:30.
And find out more about the Citizens League's proposed agenda for 2009-2010 at this resource portal.
Follow the Annual Meeting on Twitter: #CL09
Thanks to our
sponsors: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Cinequipt, Comcast, Fredrikson &
Byron P.A., General Mills, Graybow, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson P.A.,
HealthPartners, Himle Horner Inc., M&I Corporation, the Eugene J. McCarthy
Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement, St. Jude Medical Inc., Target,
and Thomson Reuters for their support of the receptions; Dean Phillips, Hubbard
Broadcasting Foundation, Twin Cities Business, and Win Wallin for their support
of the program as part of our Imagination Works series.
Special thanks to Best Buy, the technology sponsor of the Annual Meeting.
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Mind Opener Breakfast:
To the Source -- Moving Minnesota's Water Governance Upstream
Tuesday, November 17
Breakfast 7:30 a.m. | Program 8:00 a.m.
Augsburg College
Christensen Center, East Commons
720 22nd Avenue S, Minneapolis
Citizens League members $5; non-members $10
Register now
 Minnesota's water face serious threats that we are not effectively confronting.
40% of tested water bodies, for example, have been found to be polluted. Most of this pollution is coming not from a few industrial polluters but from the activities all of us do on the land -- runoff from roads, roofs, parking lots, and farms.
The way that we govern water is not being effective in addressing challenges like this.
The Citizens League Water Policy Study Committee has spent the past year and a half examining how the ways that we
manage water need to change to effectively address today's water policy
issues.
Join us to hear the conclusions and
recommendations of the committee and to discuss how all of us must
recognize our roles in water governance.
With:
- Gene Merriam, co-chair of the study committee; president, Freshwater Society; former Commissioner of the Dept. of Natural Resources and state Senator
- Janne Flisrand, member of the study committee; consultant on land use planning, sustainability, affordable housing, and transportation
- Sean Kershaw, executive director of the Citizens League
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What do your dollars fund?
In water policy, a study committee of Citizens League members found that Minnesota's waters face serious threats. 40% of evaluated lakes, rivers and streams have been found to be polluted. Most water pollution today comes from "nonpoint sources:" runoff from individual and collective activities on the land that makes its way into water bodies. The way that Minnesota governs water is not effectively addressing this challenge. We need a collaborative governance
model in which the people and organizations that contribute to water problems play a central role in addressing these problems.
Your contributions to the Citizens League can help to move these important recommendations forward to the next stage.
- $1,200 funds a Mind Opener, a breakfast discussion on topics central to our policy agenda. The Water Policy Mind Opener will take place on November 17th.
- $2,500 enables the printing and distribution of our Policy Reports to public policy leaders.
- $10,000 funds two months of a Study Committee, the hallmark of the Citizens League engagement process.
Support this work? Make a contribution online today.
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Join the Citizens League Today and Your Membership is Matched
A Board member has challenged the Citizens League to add 100 new members. If we reach our goal, every new basic membership contribution will be matched. To date, 30 new members have joined. Join now and double your contribution!
Already a member? Give a gift membership to a friend.
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