Appendix N: List of action steps from forum
The following action steps were brainstormed at the community forum in small groups. The action steps corresponding to each theme are listed below.
Community and Collaboration
- Have a celebration of to highlight the different communities in Warren County (a festival, a history day, etc)
- Create a community map with contact people, organizations and churches listed
- Have an end result be a book of community stories
Economics
- Develop sites for industry to come in BEFORE we ask them to come, as an enticement
- Spread the word in newspapers (about what?)
- Support the county commissioners and get their support for economic issues
- Set up a designated site committee to look into developing a site
- Build on the strengths of Warren County
Education
- Increase parental and teacher involvement with one another by having teachers visit homes of students
- Form a parent/teacher involvement task force
- Work on positive relationships with parents and teachers, not just focus on the negative
Politics and the People
- Attend meetings of the Board of Commissioners
- Keep public meeting minutes in the public library
- Encourage communication with commissioners
Race Relations
(those interested decided to not formed due to lack of enough interested attendees)
Recreation
- Use a vacant building or armory for a recreation center
- Use the "sweat equity", or manpower, of the teens to help build the rec. center
- Investigate funding sources
Transportation
(not formed originally due to lack of people signed up; formed own group and action steps)
- Form a collaboration between businesses who employ the employees
- Commitment by employees to utilize transportation if it is provided
- Start out small, with a van or another vehicle owned by a provider already
- Ask Kerr-Tar about the possibilities of administering the program
Forum program, insert, and evaluation
Community Organizing Resources