Chelsea
Charter Consensus
Process for the
Massachusetts Executive
Office of Administration
and Finance, Office
of the Receiver:
consensus process
reached deep into
community to re-engage
citizens in self-governance
through development
of a city charter
after the city government
was stripped of
its authority and
placed under State
Receivership. See
Social Capital Formation,
Public Building,
and Public Mediation:
The Chelsea Charter
Consensus Process,
by Susan Podziba,
Dayton, Ohio: Kettering
Foundation, 1998. Case
Study (pdf)
Memorandum
of Understanding for
the Boston Metropolitan
Planning Organization
(MPO): governance
framework for transportation
planning organization
for Eastern Massachusetts.
The Boston MPO, composed
of 17 government agencies
including federal,
state, regional, and
local government entities,
is responsible for
programming approximately
$120 million annually
in road, bridge, and
transit projects and
the $14 billion central
artery project.
Jerusalem
Inter Cultural Center:
consultation on implementation
of Ramot Municipal
Council charter, which
was inhibited by endemic
religious-secular
dispute.
Moving
Beyond Notice and
Comment: Reflections
on Negotiated Rulemaking,
co-sponsored by the
U.S. Department of
the Interior’s
Office of Collaborative
Action and Dispute
Resolution and the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s
Conflict Prevention
and Resolution Center:
SP&A designed
and facilitated this
workshop, which focused
on lessons learned
from a decade of federal
negotiated rulemakings
(reg negs). Participants
included officials
from nine federal
agencies as well as
academics and reg
neg facilitators.
Canadian
Constitutional Convention:
part of a team that
designed format of
the constitutional
convention to address
secession of Quebec
and federal power
sharing.
Massachusetts
Executive Office of
Communities and Development
/ Massachusetts Office
of Dispute Resolution:
workshop for local
elected officials
in consensus-based
planning, visioning,
and dispute resolution
skills.
National
Commission on Energy
Policy: developed
governing protocols
for Commission, including
decision-making rules,
voting procedures,
guidelines for media
interactions, and
procedures for filling
Commissioner vacancies.
The NCEP is a bi-partisan
commission that recently
released its consensus
national energy plan.
For more information,
please see .
Securing
Energy Sources, New
England Governors
Conference:
discussion of regional
energy needs, energy
options, and authorities
necessaries for securing
required power resources.
U.S.
Department of Defense,
Native American Lands
Mitigation Program:
facilitated exercise
and discussion of
tribal and Department
of Defense strategic
planning process for
addressing military
impacts on American
Indian and Alaskan
Native lands.
