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Martin Lowenstein, executive director of Friends of China Camp, talks about the landslide behind him at China Camp State Park. Hikers, bikers and others have been unable to access China Camp State Park's most popular trail in past weeks.
We are researching the topic of public engagement and want to hear your views of how well your city and the county of Marin engage with you. Public engagement is a range of methods through which government agencies provide the public with more and better information about their decisions and meaningful opportunities to influence those decisions.
In Tuesday's IJ there was a quote from an individual suggesting that the number of school districts in Marin is “absurd” and that there are “massive redundancies” that “divert monies from the classroom.” While I might agree with the author regarding the number of districts, I believe that had he done a bit of research, he would have found that previous studies suggested that in Southern Marin there would be educational benefits to primary districts unifying around the three Tamalpais Union district's comprehensive high schools, while there would be little cost savings.