<div dir="ltr">Nope, this is what I get:<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">Uh-oh, something went wrong! Error Code: 404</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Lanny Cotler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lcotler@gmail.com" target="_blank">lcotler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">URL doesn't work for me.<br>
Others?<br>
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On Nov 23, 2014, at 11:23 PM, <a href="mailto:agnes@mcn.org">agnes@mcn.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> Try this url:<br>
> <a href="http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/county-banks.htm" target="_blank">http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/county-banks.htm</a><br>
> under the window at the right click on Final Draft Mendocino County<br>
> charter.pdf It's charter #12, but needs to be updated to charter #14.<br>
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> Agnes<br>
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>> Doesn't work here, either,<br>
>> Sandy<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Lanny Cotler <<a href="mailto:lcotler@gmail.com">lcotler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Agnes,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Would you check the url you gave. It didn't work for me.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Did it work for others?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Lanny<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Nov 20, 2014, at 6:09 PM, <a href="mailto:agnes@mcn.org">agnes@mcn.org</a> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> The Public banking coalition has created a County Charter compiling<br>
>>> parts<br>
>>>> from established Counties with Charters. Ellen Rosser of point Arena<br>
>>> and<br>
>>>> Robin Sunbeam are the principle co-authors. Our #14 draft County<br>
>>> Charter<br>
>>>> can be found at <a href="http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/county-banks/htm" target="_blank">www.publicbankinginstitute.org/county-banks/htm</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Hello community rights friends,<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I agree Lanny, we do need to do some strategic planning at this point<br>
>>> in<br>
>>>>> time. But I think it is too early in the process to fix the<br>
>>> directions<br>
>>> we<br>
>>>>> should take. We urgently need more research. So as much as I like the<br>
>>>>> sound of my four examples, I would not recommend that these four<br>
>>> examples<br>
>>>>> be the starting points for four committees. Committees of this nature<br>
>>> may<br>
>>>>> come later, but we need to arrive at the point where there is some<br>
>>>>> agreement among the primary players that these are the directions in<br>
>>> which<br>
>>>>> we (CRNMC) should go.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> We urgently need the assistance of an attorney who knows about home<br>
>>> rule<br>
>>>>> charters, someone who can advise us about the desirability of<br>
>>> becoming a<br>
>>>>> home rule county. I am not an attorney, and therefore I cannot offer<br>
>>> legal<br>
>>>>> advice on this topic. This is a legal matter, and given the<br>
>>> complexity<br>
>>> of<br>
>>>>> this issue, it is highly recommended that we be working with at least<br>
>>> one<br>
>>>>> attorney. We also need to speak with those who have done this before,<br>
>>>>> those who have been part of efforts to bring home rule laws to their<br>
>>>>> county. Let's learn from them, take their directions, and hopefully<br>
>>> also<br>
>>>>> avoid their mistakes.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I asked Shannon about who we could contact regarding home rule<br>
>>> charters,<br>
>>>>> and she referred me to LAFCO (which I believe refers to the Local<br>
>>> Agency<br>
>>>>> Formation Commission). I tried to do some research on this but on the<br>
>>> web<br>
>>>>> got lost in a deluge of information. Does anybody have experience<br>
>>> with<br>
>>>>> LAFCO? Perhaps they know of another organization that could advise us<br>
>>>>> about home rule charters at this point in time?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> /s/ Charles<br>
>>>>><br>
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