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2013 Strategic Project Meeting – Forming Action Teams and Getting It Done!

The Future of Toledo Initiative is bringing together key stakeholders to transform our city and region. Over the last 6 months we have held 3 Community Meetings and identified the following 14 Strategic Projects for 2013. Review the items. Which one is most important to you? Who else needs to be at the meeting? Join us as we move to action.

14 Strategic Projects

• Advance the City’s Brand & Community Engagement through Social Media
• Develop Regional Education Master Plan (Involve & Mentor)
• Determine Feasibility of a Water District
• Launch an Econ Dev Corridor
• Advance Waterfront Development
• Promote Citizen Engagement through Volunteerism
• Create an Incentive Program for Attracting & Retaining Businesses (e.g., Downtown Hotel, Downtown Grocery Store)
• Eliminate Blight & Repurpose Land
• Create the Toledo Off Road Jeep Trail
• Craft and Launch a Park & Rec System Master Plan
• Provide Resources for More Fire & Police
• Create a Common Vision Among: Board of Community Relations, Better Community Relations Board, the Mayor’s Coalition for Hope, Dept. of Neighborhoods, and the Youth Commission
• 311 Call Center Integrated Solution Supported by an Asset Management Tracking System (Cityworks & Accela)
• Arts – Partner with the Arts Commission to Put on a Great Event.

You are invited to be a part of the action, as we move forward on exciting priorities for our city and region – priorities created through engaging citizens and leaders!

The Future of Toledo Initiative focuses on working together to build a better tomorrow, today. Over the past Summer and early Fall, community and government leaders held several FoT meetings to collaboratively move the city’s strategic plan forward for the Future of Toledo, resulting in the Strategic Action Plan 2013 with 14 Strategic Projects for 2013. On March 21st, we will meet again to build the teams around each of the projects, and move to action.

The children in the Woodberry Park Kids, Cartooning, and Chess program at the Mareda Center have been thinking of what they would do as Mayor of Toledo, and are planning to share it with the man currently holding that position.

On June 3, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Mayor Mike Bell will visit students enrolled in Woodberry Park Kids, Cartooning, and Chess at the Inez Nash Park (206 E. Bancroft Street), just a few blocks from where the children usually meet.

Through the Kids, Cartooning, and Chess program, 5th through 8th grade students from the Moody Manor apartment complex participate in weekly sessions where they are given the opportunity to develop in their strategic and creative thinking by playing chess, drawing cartoon strips, and art.

Recently, they have been preparing comic art communicating their priorities if given the chance to be Mayor. Beyond the skills they learn, participants also enhance their ability to express creativity, learn proper social and sportsmanlike conduct, and spend time in a nurturing, safe, and caring environment.