Civic Calendar User's Guide

Introducing your Brownwood/Brown County Civic Calendar.

Please save it for future reference.

Here’s how to use it:

1.       Read the whole list—which meetings interest you?  Why?

2.     Explore the links.  Learn more about the groups.

3.      Pick a meeting to attend.  Print the agenda, if one is available, and follow along, and take notes on your agenda as the meeting progresses.

4.    If there is a Citizen Presentation or Public Comment option on the agenda, and you have something to say, take time to do some research and write down your remarks, and practice your delivery to fit the time allotted, usually no more than 5 minutes.

5.     Don’t go alone, if at all possible.  Find someone to go with you. (Send me an email and let me know too!)   There is safety, moral support, and power, in numbers.

6.    Please let me know if the information in the Calendar is out of date or incorrect, or if there are issues with the links.  Also, feel free to suggest additional meetings to be included.  This Calendar is a work in progress.

Going alone is better than not going at all.  But don’t expect to have a big impact by yourself.  The more people you can rally to your cause, the better. 

You will notice that every one of the government bodies or agencies on this list own or control some land.  This is public land, maintained with tax dollars.  Is it managed for the public benefit?

I believe these public lands can play an important role in responding to the biosphere crises of pollution, mass extinction, and climate change.

The ecological solutions to these crises are already at hand, but the general public here is not yet demanding the local implementation of these actionable, scalable, and affordable solutions.

It starts from the grass roots—literally, in the soil.

And the political grass roots—citizenship in action.