Tuesday, May 17, 2011

WVC Leadership Summit


On Thursday The West Valley City Leadership Summit was held at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. This was a gathering of community leaders from various fields including education, ethnic, and religious leaders. It was a great opportunity to share insights and ideas concerning areas in which we can improve our City. All the leaders that attended were great to be with and I look forward to working with them to make some of the concepts that we discussed a reality. I was able to lead the breakout discussion concerning neighborhoods. I brought in a few interesting slides and facts to help facilitate the discussion, but overall the community leaders had no shortage of ideas. The following is a few points of discussion from our group meetings:

  • How can neighborhoods better coordinate disaster preparedness?
  • Good Landlord Program, increase in code enforcement. Are we focused correctly?
  • How are we doing on graffiti?
  • CERT program, connection/coordination between neighborhood organizations and City?
  • City Grant / matching funds to make improvements?
  • Neighborhoods lack sense of community and unity. Formal Groups needed?
  • Vital Neighborhoods Needs?
From these discussions several action items were identified for further discussion and implementation. Other ideas will be brought back to the next summit for fut=rther input.

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