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PAGE A-6 THE POST-STANDARD Saturday, February 19, 2011

LOCAL NEWS

Pondering civil civic discourse

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Community members meetto discuss productivity,civility at public meetings.

By Sarah MosesStaff writer

After the death of a Liver-pool school board president

last year and clashes at recentJordan-Elbridge Board of Edu-cation meetings, local commu-nity groups are working onways to create more civil civicdiscourse at public meetings.

‘‘If ever there were a time tobring back civility, it is now,’’said Tina Nabatchi, an assist-ant professor of public admin-istration at the MaxwellSchool of Syracuse Universityand co-director of CNY-Speaks, a nonpartisan, nonpro-fit effort that seeks to spark constructive conversationswith Central New Yorkersabout critical issues.

About 70 community mem-

bers met Friday morning forthe FOCUS Great SyracuseCore Group meeting at Syra-cuse City Hall Commons.FOCUS stands for Forging

Our Community’s UnitedStrength.

Community members brokeinto small groups and dis-cussed ways to create moreproductive public meetingsand improve civic discourse.The meeting was also hostedby CNYSpeaks.

The topic has been in theworks since Liverpool CentralSchool Board President PatMouton suffered a heart attack during a heated board meetingin March. She died shortlyafterwards. The board voted onclosing a school during themeeting and, for some com-munity members, emotions ranhigh and tempers flared. Atone point, a man shouted soharshly at Mouton, she calledon a security guard to calmhim down.

Bill Sanford, a former As-sembly member and formerchairman of the OnondagaCounty Legislature, said hewas contacted by a Liverpool

board member after Mouton’sdeath.

‘‘I felt badly and thatenough was enough,’’ Sanfordsaid. ‘‘I felt that we had to do

something.’’Sanford brought his con-

cerns to FOCUS. Since Mou-ton’s death, national news sto-ries, such as the shooting at aFlorida school board meetingin December and the Tucsonmass shooting in January, havecontinued to fuel the debate.

‘‘I think one of the reasonsmeetings go wrong is becausethey are designed wrong,’’ Na-batchi said. ‘‘People are fight-ing for two minutes of micro-phone time.’’

Nabatchi said a redesign of public meetings can help easesome of the problems.

‘‘We need a redesign thatmakes people feel that they arebeing heard,’’ she said. ‘‘Sothat the people being heard arenot just the loudest and the an-griest.’’

Jordan-Elbridge Board of Education meetings have be-come so heated that the districtasked for a sheriff’s deputy toattend each meeting. In Janu-

ary, a suspended principal wasescorted out of a board meet-ing by a deputy. Six of thenine school board memberswalked out themselves, as au-

dience members yelled atthem.

‘‘People should be able toshare their emotions, and wecan have anger, but we have tobe able to channel it in a con-structive way,’’ said GrantReeher, director of the Camp-bell Public Affairs Institute atSyracuse University’s Max-

well School. ‘‘We are all hu-mans and we all have the capa-bility to lose our civility.’’

Contact Sarah Moses atsmoses@syracuse.com or 470-2298.

Making meeting civilIdeas from FOCUS GreatSyracuse Core Groupmembers Friday to bringcivility to public meetings:4 Have third-partyfacilitators.4 Create training forfacilitators and public

officials on how to handlehostile situations.4 Hold workshop-stylemeetings with the publicand policy makers.4 Establish ground rules atevery meeting.

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THE NATION’S NO. 1 girls cross-country team — Fayetteville-Manlius — is honored at an awards ceremony at thehigh school Friday. ESPN RISE, which focuses on scholastic sports, came to the school to present the awards. F-Mfinished the 2010-11 season ranked No. 1 on the Powerade FAB 50 ESPN RISE rankings and won their fifth consec-utive Nike Cross Nationals national championship. Holding their awards are (left to right)Coach Bill Aris, MaggieMalone, Emily McGurrin, Katie Brislin, Christie Rutledge, Jillian Fanning, Heather Martin, Katie Sischo and Court-ney Chapman.

Brother, sister to play inCarnegie Hall tonight By Lorenzo ArguelloContributing writer

A Skaneateles brother andsister will get a thrill tonightthat many musicians onlydream of: They will perform atNew York City’s CarnegieHall.

Maureen Meyer and heryounger brother, Sam, bothstudents at Skaneateles HighSchool, will play their saxo-phones in an all-star highschool band.

‘‘I was really excited,’’Maureen Meyer said, when shefound out in October that theywere both going to play at theworld-renowned concert hall.‘‘The opportunity to play theresounded great.’’

The Meyers were two of about 20 high school studentsfrom New York state selectedto take part in the AmericanHigh School Honors Perform-

ance Series, which draws stu-dents from across the U.S. andCanada to take part in threedifferent ensembles, choir, or-chestra and band.

The two were nominated byChristopher Creviston, a saxo-

phone teacher at a band campthey attend. Maureen and Samare the children of Jeff andMadonna Meyer.

The students arrived in NewYork City Wednesday night.The weekend of events in-cludes long rehearsals, seeing‘‘The Lion King’’ on Broad-way, a recognition on the‘‘CBS Early Show,’’ and tour-ing Times Square and theWorld Trade Center site.

Maureen Meyer hopes todouble major in music per-formance and pre-med whenshe heads to college this fall.She said she is excited to meetpeople who share her musical

interests this weekend. Herbrother, Sam, was busy withrehearsals and unavailable forcomment.

Despite having to performon such a big stage, last-min-ute jitters have yet to get to

her, Meyer said.

‘‘Once I get on stage Imight get a little nervous, butnot right now,’’ she said.Contact Lorenzo Arguello at470-2259 or atlarguello@syracuse.com.

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