RE: Identifying the public - Comment to Keith Smith
- Archived: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Mark F. Bohne <hilltop@lrbcg.com>
- Subject: RE: Identifying the public - Comment to Keith Smith
- X-topic: Outreach
Relative to your question about where and when the public should be involved, the answer is "cradle to grave".
Literally, the public views being asked to be involved half-way through the process the same way they are asked to comment at public meetings on permit processes, namely that the decisions have already been made without them and the agency is just going through the legal "routine".
The public usually leaves with the understanding that the decisions have already been made by an unaffected bureaucracy.
Of course, the public shares responsibility to become involved.
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