RE: Facilitation of advisory groups

[Rich Puchalsky <rpuchalsky@att.net>]

Steve Tarlton writes:
"Many stakeholders can develop a sense of trust with specific individuals, it is not something that is identified with organizations. I don't think any of our stakeholders would trust the "state", but some of them trust some state staff." 

It's impossible to trust an organization like a state environmental agency, or the EPA, because these organizations are designed to be guided by political decisions at the upper levels of the organization.  So the people that the public talks to can be personally trustworthy, but if a political administration changes, the bosses of the people that they talk to will change, and the organization as a whole will drop some policies and start new ones no matter what the people that the public have talked to have said.