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Discussion Item: Strategic Initiatives
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SUBMITTED BY: Lamar Cotten, ED Commission Staff Advisor
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Per our last meeting's discussions (7.6.16), attached please find an updated Strategic Initiative Overview. Secondly, below are key updates to the document since the July meeting.
1. Promote Housing Affordability and Availability. Request of the city to advance housing needs assessment. Dennis Ragsdale, City Manager indicated he will have the task addressed in the broader community planning project.
2. Enhance Senior and Developmental Disability Services and Oppt. Per our internal discussions and a suggestion by Ruthie Knight, Mayor, EDC may want to consider a joint meeting with the Medical Center Health Advisory Council on issues of mutual concern. EDC requested a joint work session with the manager/mayor and city council. To date no meeting date has been determined.
3. Downtown Beautification and Redevelopment. EDC and MBTF held a joint meeting on July 20th. There were no meeting minutes taken, however there is an available audio tape on line. Topic discussed includedbut were not limited to community-wide abate enforcement challenges, re-cycle issues, access to landfill, abandon buildings, use of the CoV baler, downtown themes, current and future use of Three Bears property, along with a general discussion of residential area clean up initiated and completed at the block level.
My initial thought was most of such matters were within the purview of city government and therefore would be handled by city administration or council action. However, EDC may want to explore a role in some of these issues.
In our current Strategic Initiatives we list as a possible task,
"At the completion of the main street improvements, working w/ main street property owners to engag...
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