Process for change - Breakout 1

Process For Change – BREAKOUT 1 (Facilitated by Jacob Corvidae)
Principles

• Streamline
• Integrate
• affordability
• impact on jobs

 Ideas

• need redundancy
• repeat this process before getting to structure
• getting down, listening to people
• education: lack of knowledge needed to:
• develop community ownership of assets AND process
• need to know city’s level of commitment to Environmental Goals
• Lots of great examples from other cities, but need baseline: deaf ears or high priority?
• Devil’s Night/Angel’s Night
• City transformed perception of that night
• Example of successful leadership messaging/city’s potential impact on education
• Community responded and does leg work
• Change process ofchange
• Portand very different: city process came together at neighborhood node
• Always hear “city not doing x,y,z”
• City not this thing downtown
• Hub of engagement, figure out ways to do things ourselves
• Charter commission
• Elected community councils
• Empowerment to do cuts out unnecessary bureaucracy
• Want to see some exciting big ideas
• Closing roads
• Step outside box
• Centralized big ideas/leadership AND decentralized community control
• DWP at best is big picture thinking
• Important to understand what’s happening at neighborhood level
• Without shared vision people do not buy into process
• Before announcing big bold idea, city [should?] goes and does painful process w/ impacted community and not find out on paper
• OR have hoods nominate own areas for closing
• Take out fear of uncertainty
• Is there enough from all meetings to have a collective set of principles?
• E.g., make it east for neighborhood plans to plug into city plan via set of principles and policies you plug into.
• Service with a smile?
• Attitude shift at city
• Transparency
• Structure for comm. Input
• Where’s the data and how is it applied?
• Want to understand to give meaningful feedback
• Roles
• CITY
• state policies that empower home-based solutions
• facilitates change
• HOME
• Simple solutions
• Implements changes
• City: put the ideas on the table; let’s hash it out
• Fiscal crisis
• Is it justified to concentrate $$ to a viable, but small community?
• How to get the community to own their part of living in reality of shrinking population?
• Community: Marvin (Pettiman?)