Blog#7 - Potrero Nuevo Farm Role in The Local Government

The Potrero Nuevo Farm

Potrero Nuevo Farm is a nonprofit organization protected by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST). An organization that was built to preserve natural resources from getting polluted. It provides clean air and water, locally grown food, and a place for people and wildlife to thrive.

Potrero Nuevo Farm has a lot of impact on the local community. They help minimize the amount of homeless and poor people by providing food for free. The farm helps other charities in an indirect way by producing fresh organic fruits and vegetables and deliver them to homeless shelters and places that serve food for the poor and families in need. Also, the farm helps sustain the Bay Area natural habitat and keep it healthy and livable for us and our future generations. Moreover, Potrero Nuevo Farm provides educational programs to help children learn how to cultivate different kinds of produce. And that also is helping the local government to achieve one of the hallmarks that was written by the Notre Dame Sisters " We Educate For And Act On Behalf Of Justice And Peace In The World."

Blog#6 - Focus question on State Legislatures

State Legislatures

Focus question: what are the three principals functions of legislatures?

Well, the three principals functions of legislatures are:-

1- Policymaker:

Which includes enacting laws and allocating funds. Legislatures alone do not have control of the state policymaking. but they are the dominant policymaking institutions in state government.

2- Representation:

Legislatures are expected to speak for their people in the legislative chamber and also they act as their constituents’ facilitators in the state government.

3- Oversight:

Concerned that the law they passed in addition to the funds they allocated frequently did not produce the intended effect. Their role takes legislatures into the administrative realm.