City of Hampton Seeks Civic Engagement for Flooding Solutions
“City Manager Mary Bunting indicated the pre budget public consultations, which saw thousands of citizens make their views known on city services, would become a template for an initiative on flooding.
“Staff has been developing a concept of a citizen task force that will look at the multiplicity of issues because they are all interrelated. We have flooding issues. We have dredging issues. We have shoreline protection issues,” she told Wednesday’s City Council meeting.
Bunting said the citizen engagement process that was used in the budget could be applied to these issues.
“It does need to be staff and citizens working together both in understanding the issue as well as developing strategies,” she said.”
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