From the Legislative Desk

It’s not just something in the water! What makes a community a highly sought after, great place for people to live and work? What are the special and essential features of a region that are attributable to its prosperity? These and other critical questions and issues constitute a good part of the Policy Analysis Group study program for 2010. Read on, and see if these are the type of questions you’re interested in discussing.

What are the impediments and negative features that impede prosperity and stifle growth? What positive characteristics exist among the fabric of a prosperous community that distinguishes it from another that is not so well off?

What are the essential elements of good local governance that make up and form a prosperous community? What do citizens want in a community they choose to live and work in? Is a successful community one that’s inhabited by a strong contingent of local leaders?

What are the dynamics of prosperity and can they be replicated, promoted and developed again and again? How can we best go about developing a process of taking inventory and identifying the essential elements of a community’s prosperity? Are there statutory or structural provisions of county government law which, if reformed, would help make communities in Texas more economically viable and, in general, more progressive?

In future editions we will list the Policy Analysis Group vacancies available for interested county officials.

For information, please call Carey Boethel or Laura Nicholes, (800) 456-5974.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe