The City’s first Neighborhood Conference is October 27th.  This is for everyone in the City to help learn how to more efficiently use the resources that the City has to offer.  This includes doing stuff like forming a neighborhood watch to work with City departments to get better responses to your problems.  We are also trying to develop neighborhood leadership and collaberation.  The Mayor will be there to kick it off and the event is organized by Community Development.  The event will be at the Boys and Girls club over behind Dean elementary on Oct. 27th.  It starts at 8:30 and goes until 3:00.

Awhile back, I started looking at what sort of plans the City has to help us move forward. The strategic plan is somewhat limited but I did think we had a good economic development plan.  Big parts of the Economic Development plan were never implemented in the recent past as none of that stuff had been necessary.  The area was building as fast as it could. Now that things are slow, we needed a more coordinated effort to attract good development.

I drafted up a very rough resolution and, working with fellow council members and staff, refined it into a workable product. This was passed some time ago but I never mentioned it here as most folks wouldn’t find it all that exciting. Nevertheless, here is the resolution in all of it’s glory. The Economic Development/Land Use committee is working its way through this and we should come up with some very exciting plans shortly.