Look to our Massachusetts Attorney General and our Secretary of the
Commonwealth for guidance with respect to negotiating with our
municipal governments. Consider making available to citizens
information about negotiation on the Public Records Division web
pages. When he was in office Attorney General Scott Harshbarger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harshbarger began making available
information about negotiating. He provided negotiation information for
teens on his AG web pages.

Negotiation resources could be listed, for example the Program on Negotiation
at
http://pon.harvard.edu

or
http://www.gerryspence.com/howtoargue.html

How about our Public Records Division, the State Secretary, Division
of Open Government, our State Attorney General sponsoring a high
school essay and college essay contest?... as is done in Connecticut
offering students opportunity to write about principles of open
government FOI Freedom of Information public records, Sunshine open
public meetings, negotiation
http://www.state.ct.us/foi/
http://www.state.ct.us/foi/Students/Contest/CFOG%20Contests/2010CFOGEssay/CFOG_2010_Essay_Contest_Winners.htm

These are the kinds of activities that government agencies can do to
attract people better qualified and actually interested in improving
our state and local governments.

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