The first article Can Citizen Participation Become Reasonable goes over community participation and the reasonable person model. We discussed this articles example in class last Thursday and it brought up some good points about public meetings as a means of engagement. Public meetings are not the best method of getting information or help from the public because they are only one day usually, the group that shows up isn’t indicative of the entire community, and many people who come may not speak at all. As we discussed in class with this example most people who showed up were elderly white residents and this obviously isn’t representative of the entire community. A good point was brought up in class also when someone speaks are they speaking
