Tri-Community Meeting Notes – table reports
Top 3 Overarching Goals
- Economic Development
- Tourism
- Lake front development
- More restaurants
- Booming businesses
- Enhanced productivity for all
- Community-based Services
- Boys and Girls Club
- Support for families
- Services for seniors
- More collaboration with agencies
- Enhanced Community Pride and Connectedness
- Relationships
- Celebrate diversity in community
- Increase volunteerism
- Better collaboration
- Strong sense of community identity
- Role models – need for character education
- Enhance sense of respect for self, others, community
Q1: Why is it imperative that we come together now?
- Advertise/share resources
- Spread the word about community events
- Enhanced rail service – transportation
- Better communication with government
- Improve recreation and resources for youth
- Share resources among tri-community like with parks, ZBTHS, library
- Introduce local government in classrooms – make connection for students with what they are learning in school and real life in their communities
- Get everyone to the table, listening NOW
- Share/celebrate mistakes and successes
- Need to rid of fear, negativity
- Need economic development and this will lead to social development
- Focus on youth
- Increase communication among tri-community to eliminate concept of boundaries
- Adults need to come together as role models
- More respect
- Team up services – increase cooperation and effectiveness
- Better together
- Natural boundary for the area – use it as a strength
- Working together will increase access to funds – focus on shared economic development
- Social organizations need to come together
- Youth and adults need character education (CE)
- Unique community with common purpose
- Enhanced emergency services
- Serve first – model respect and compassion
- Leadership from the bottom up
- Now: bring diversity to the table
- Children need to interact with each other from all 3 communities before high school
- Encourage good, strong family values – RESPECT – strong neighborhoods
- Accomplish more with cooperation
- More youth services/activities
- Revive sense and appreciation of community
Q2: What does a healthy, well-connected community look like?
- Leaders that drive change
- Churches and park districts (to name a few entities) working together
- Clean community that people take pride in and general sense of caring
- Helping people in need
- Safe community
- More help and services for seniors
- Shared economic and social values
- Tourism
- Amish-like system where everyone helps
- Tri-community transportation
- Variety of resources
- Leaders endorse ideas from all
- Unity, love, strength
- Officials work together
- K-8 schools and HS need to network better with parents
- More churches reaching out – think about Northpoint Community Church as an example
- Healthy resources – more
- Community meetings – more
- Pride will increase if people work together more
- Create a strong community identity
- 3 communities that look like 1
- Keep our dollars here
- Boys and Girls Club
- Better communication
- More chain restaurants
- No segregation
- Need more sense of belonging
- Park Districts share fees with all 3 communities
- Large community meetings
- Create a community relations committee
- Unified school system
- Recreation for youth
- Better planning and zoning
- Public buildings shared by all communities
- Smoke free parks
- Multi-generational events
- Auditorium for the arts
- Redo CHC logo- change from a triangle to a circle – more inclusive
- New name for area – one name that represents all 3 communities
Top 3 priorities:
- Widespread buy-in to bring communities together
- Healthy Boys and Girls Club
- Aware of each other’s desires
- Develop the lake front – shared public space, use it more effectively
- Economic development, stability, cooperation
- Strong families
- More transportation
- Central community space
- Tourism
- Recognizable community identity
- Celebrate successes
- Increase supervision of children
- Hold parents accountable
- Better youth services
- Park district that is inclusive of all
- Healthy commerce
- Volunteerism (youth and seniors too)
- Mentoring programs for all ages
- Community identity to build strong citizens and leaders
- Engage in relationship building to promote ourselves
