Metropolis Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa hosted the primary Uptown Individuals’s Meeting in Washington Heights on February 10. The occasion introduced the neighborhood collectively to facilitate discussions about neighborhood enhancements.
The Uptown Individuals’s Meeting is an element of a bigger co-governance mannequin the place neighborhood members are immediately concerned in decision-making to have an effect on laws, coverage, initiatives, and budgets. With round 300 attendees, there was ample dialogue and networking.
“The concept of co-governance is about sharing area with these we govern,” mentioned De La Rosa, who represents District 10, encompassing the neighborhoods of Kingsbridge-Marble Hill, Washington Heights (north and south), Inwood, Highbridge Park, and Inwood Hill Park. “Co-governance permits the folks’s voice on the desk when choices are being made––we regularly say these closest to the ache have the options. To see how devoted my constituency is to creating change and being a part of the answer is exclusive and highly effective.”
Group members have formed the co-governance mannequin by participating in committees masking housing, small enterprise, atmosphere, well being, training, and youth, in addition to arts and tradition. They’ve led the event and outreach for the Uptown Individuals’s Meeting, hoping to collect concepts and workshop options to implement within the bigger District 10 Motion Plan.
