Setting Ground Rules: Municipal Code & Community Council By-Laws

Darrel Hess, Municipal Ombudsman

• Community Council By-Laws: a breakdown of by-law requirements for Community Councils
• Community Council 101: an explainer on Community Councils
• Community Council Roots: highlights and history of the Community Council Program from 1973 to 1978
• How to Submit New By-Laws: how Community Councils should submit new by-laws

 

Core Principles of Robert's Rules of Order

Christopher Constant, Assembly Member, & Jamie Heinz, Municipal Clerk

• Presentation Slides
• The Chair Recognizes: a booklet of Parlimentary Procedure
• Parlimentary Procedure: a reference guide to moving the meeting along

 

Ethics & Community Council Officers

Terrance Kelly, PhD, UAA Department of Philosophy

• Presentation Slides
• References from Dr. Kelly
  • A Puzzle about Professional Ethics
  • Blindspots, Bazerman and Tenbrunsel: Surveys studies on implicit bias and how bias distorts ethical reasoning.
  • Ordinary Men, Browning: Applies Milgram’s Authority Experiments and other social psychology to the open air shooting of the Holocaust
  • The Psychology of Evil, Zimbardo, TED Talk: Stanford Prison Study psychologist discusses that experiment as well as Milgram experiment and applies it to cases such as Abu Ghraib.
  • Bowling Alone & The Upswing, Robert Putnam
  • Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach, Terrence Kelly
  • Replication (within ethical limits) of Milgram Study for ABC Primetime
  • Ethics Unwrapped: Excellent website on behavioral ethics, bias, ethical theory.  Great short videos and case studies.