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Are You Willing to Spend the Time?

By Mark Geary

Story Created: Jan 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM CST

Story Updated: Jan 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM CST

The city of Cedar Rapids is asking people to spend quite a bit of time on Saturday talking about the future of flood damaged neighborhoods. Officials want people to arrive around 8:00 a.m. and stay until 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 10. The goal is to get people talking about ways to rebuild, restore and enhance neighborhoods that might be danger of fading away. Other similar meetings like this will follow in the coming months. My question is....are people really willing to devote that much time (all at once) to this topic? Or, should the city try to break-up these meetings/sessions into smaller chunks that won't require sacrificing an entire day. What do you think?

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