How does your CP interface with local government units? Be specific. Are there any leaders in particular who have had an important impact on the success or development of your CP?
My community partner, Table of Plenty, is a privately run non-profit organization. Therefore, there is no interface with local government units. At the Table of Plenty there are various leaders who have impacted on the success of this organization. First and foremost, Sister Jeanette, she is a prominent leader in this organization by making sure that everything runs smoothly. Sister Jeanette took over the Table of Plenty from Fr. Charlie. Ever since I joined this organization, things have ran smoothly and thanks to Sister Jeanette and other leaders such as Debbe Kennedy, this organization continues to impact hundreds of people.
Timesheet Status Check
Travel Time: 60 minutes
Volunteer Hours: 3 hours
Total Hours Volunteered: 36 hours
Going to Table of Plenty continues to be a gratifying experience. It makes me joyous seeing familiar and new faces. Going to Table of Plenty and forming new relationships with co-workers and guest has also been memorable. However, since the majority of the people are old, there has been a lot of guest and volunteers who have suffered medical issues. Just hearing about it breaks my heart because they are people who I have grown to love. For example, one of our guest had a stroke and was in comma for a couple of weeks. He lived in government housing. While he was in comma he was evicted and they gave away his home. Now he has no home and no where to sleep. It breaks my heart because he suffered a severe stroke and to top it off he lost his home. It is very unfortunate and unfair.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Blog #6
What are the three principal functions of legislature?
- Legislature engage in three principal functions: policymaking, representation, and oversight.
1. policymaking includes enacting laws and allocation funds. Legislature deals with issues such as budget shortfalls, health care, higher education, and alternative energy sources. They revise old laws, pass new laws and make changes in spending. Legislators do not have sole control of the state policymaking function; governors, courts, and agencies also determine policy, through executive orders, judicial decisions, and administrative regulations, respectively. But legislatures are the dominant policymaking institutions in state government.
2. legislators are expected to represent their constituents - the people who live in their district - in two ways. They are expected to speak for their constituents in the legislative chamber - to do the will of the public in designing policy solutions.
3. the third function, oversight, is different form the policymaking and representation functions. Concerned that the laws they passed and the funds they allocated frequently did not produce the intended effect, lawmakers began to pay more attention to the performance of the state bureaucracy. Legislatures have adopted a number of methods for checking up on agency implementation and spending. Their oversight role take legislatures into the administrative realm of state government.
- Legislature engage in three principal functions: policymaking, representation, and oversight.
1. policymaking includes enacting laws and allocation funds. Legislature deals with issues such as budget shortfalls, health care, higher education, and alternative energy sources. They revise old laws, pass new laws and make changes in spending. Legislators do not have sole control of the state policymaking function; governors, courts, and agencies also determine policy, through executive orders, judicial decisions, and administrative regulations, respectively. But legislatures are the dominant policymaking institutions in state government.
2. legislators are expected to represent their constituents - the people who live in their district - in two ways. They are expected to speak for their constituents in the legislative chamber - to do the will of the public in designing policy solutions.
3. the third function, oversight, is different form the policymaking and representation functions. Concerned that the laws they passed and the funds they allocated frequently did not produce the intended effect, lawmakers began to pay more attention to the performance of the state bureaucracy. Legislatures have adopted a number of methods for checking up on agency implementation and spending. Their oversight role take legislatures into the administrative realm of state government.
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