Mike Ross reports: " The NCA will start making The Dummies Guide To Understanding Secondary Effects Reports available to cabaret owners this week.
The Dummies Guide To Understanding Secondary Effects Reports is designed to answer questions about secondary effects and the political process that creates them.
The handbook's focus, written in laymen's terms, is to answer questions while providing cabaret owners with tools to organize and fight back. The guide will also educate owners about the political process that develops the city's reports and proposals and how to refute the reports themselves. After reading the Guide, we hope that each cabaret owner will be able to sit down with both legal professionals and government officials and understand what they are talking about, what is happening, how they can help speed up the process (and save money), how to affect change, and what the outcome might be. The Guide also urges you to immediately start working a secondary effects report.
Additionally, the material will provides you with key arguments that will not only help you present your report while dashing the opposition on the rocks, but insights on how to handle the media.
The Guide is available to adult business owners only, and is free to all NCA Members upon request. Membership costs $350. The Guide purchased separately, is $100.00
This document is designed to be used as a guide only. As with any political situation, there are other interpretations that can be made. We suggest that you use this document with an organized game plan that includes political and legal expertise.
TABLE OF CONTENTS \n· Introduction & Disclaimer - Exactly what is a secondary effects report? \nChapter 1 -What is a lobbyist, Definitions, What a lobbyist does When Government Moves Against You, Issues to follow Politics, Hearings and Sources of Hidden Issues. \nChapter 2 - Ordinances, Laws and Government, How To Participate , Agendas, Information Gathering Sources, Visibility \nChapter 3 - Community Organizing; Reaching Your Neighbors. \nChapter 4 - Paperwork, Banks and Honesty Forms \nChapter 5 How Does A Bill or Ordinance Become Law?; The process, an overview; Outside Influences On The Process; Info. Resources \nChapter 6 - Legislative Terms \nChapter 7 - Publications \nChapter 8 - Legislator and Staff Rapport; Making an appointment; Preparing for meetings; Working with staff \nChapter 9 - Taking Official Positions; Review the proposal; Proposal Analysis; Letter and Report Writing. \nChapter 10 - Media Campaigns; On a Shoe String; Informing Your Employees and Staff; High Profile Issues \nChapter 11 - Responding to the other side Chapter 12 Testifying before a committee; Contacting Members and Staff; Follow-ups; Committee operations; Making Testifying Easier \nChapter 13 - Responses to Frequently Asked Questions \nChapter 14 - Secondary Effects Reports: How To Create a secondary effects report; The Basics; How To Read The Report; How To respond to a city's secondary effects report; Looking for Experts; Example Statistics; Using Statistics; Statistics Page.
The Guide is available starting 5/10/00. Please contact us at (916) 923 2215 for more information.
