Pop Up City Hall
Pop Up City Hall
Community engagement has always been a priority for our Mayor and City Council, but the traditional ways of community outreach (town halls, government meetings, etc) was not working. So we decided we were going to bring "city government" to where people were. Both physically and electronically. Over 6 weeks we physically brought City Hall to 10 events in Grand Forks and had 300 residents take a survey that answered questions ranging from "Have you been to a government meeting?" to "What would be the best way to pay for road repairs?". While we were running the physical Pop Up City Hall events we were also running an online campaign that asked the same questions and provided the same information. 603 took our online surveys. Our Pop Up City Halls were a great success and are now a regular part of our community outreach plans.