Town hall meeting - Citizendia

A Town hall meeting is an informal public meeting derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. A town meeting is a meeting where the population of an entire geographic area is invited to participate in a gathering often for a political administrative or legislative purpose History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the Similarly to those meetings, everybody in a community is invited to attend, voice their opinions, and hear the responses from public figures and elected officials, although attendees rarely vote on an issue. Elected is the latest EP by Dutch Progressive metal project Ayreon. An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it in an Organisation or In today's heterogeneous communities with large populations, more often, town hall meetings are held so that people can influence elected officials in their decision making or to give them a chance to feel that their voices are being heard. In biological terms a community is a group of interacting Organisms sharing an environment. Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes ( cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives

There are no specific rules or guidelines for holding a town hall meeting. If the turnout is large, and the objective is to give as many people as possible an opportunity to speak, the group can be broken down into smaller discussion groups. Participants all hear an opening presentation and then group-up to discuss an aspect of the presentation. Each group appoints someone to summarize their group's discussion.

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UM-St. Louis Public Policy Research Center

Jan 17, 2008 - the above link is broken.