By Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel Go to Table of Contents 4. I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree, Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. With this structure, not all ward or county council members need to attend all ward or county council meetings. Sometimes, for really important issues, decisions are made by a referendum of all members. Other times, only representatives sent by neighborhood councils to ward councils or ward councils to county councils vote.
Meetings are always open and for important issues they are televised before referenda.
The CCFB is governed by the same participatory rules as any other workplace. Each neighborhood and ward council has its own smaller CCFB to facilitate their collective consumption decisions, and the same holds for cities, states, and regions. To fully understand collective consumption requires relating it to the planning of all economic decisions which we discuss later. Here, however, we can describe relevant local institutions and the logic of some of their procedures. It chooses between projects like new athletic complexes, cultural centers, hospitals, schools, bus systems, or no new construction at all.