20th Anniversary Goal Highlights
87 VISIONING GOALS (unranked)
- Open schools weekends, nights, and holidays
- Provide equal , quality, education for all children
- Increase the number of school days
- Teach students to be good citizens
- Keep training teachers and make them accountable
- Combine city and county schools
- Increase technology in all classrooms
- Establish community scholarships
- Improve services for all children, ages 0-6
- Provide affordable, quality childcare
- Organize more programs for teens
- Foster independence and community involvement for older people
- Increase collaborations and mergers among human services
- Add diverse and multilingual staff to human services
- Provide affordable, healthful, and safe housing
- Expand affordable, accessible, quality, HealthCare
- Establish a hospital for children
- Eliminate discrimination and racism
- Build local pride and a positive attitude
- Include people with disabilities in all activities
- Increase support for volunteering
- Teach newcomers about the community
- Create one community calendar for all community events
- Encourage religious congregations to form partnerships on projects
- Make downtown economically vibrant and livable
- Restore the Erie Canal downtown for boating, ice skating, and local history
- Restore the Landmark Theater
- Improve downtown parking and make it affordable, add trees, flowers, & lighting
- Link downtown stores and museums with landscaped walkways or sky bridges
- Develop and clean Onondaga Lake
- Create pocket parks and community gardens
- Build strong neighborhoods through participation by their residents
- Stop further development sprawl, preserve urban and rural green spaces
- Preserve older historical buildings
- Make villages, towns, & city more pedestrian friendly
- Improve public transportation linking all areas
- Improve airline service and fares
- Protect clean air and water
- Eliminate litter and graffiti
- Provide highly visible signs leading to community attractions
- Combine all tourism efforts
- Launch a national campaign to attract tourists
- Teach hospitality tips for dealing with newcomers
- Encourage Carousel shoppers to visit other attractions
- Centrally locate & promote downtown visitors center
- Enclose walkways around the convention center
- Build a hotel near ONCENTER
- Add more events year-round
- Plant flowers and trees at all entrances to our community
- Build an aquarium
- Build a Native American Cultural Center
- Establish an African American & Underground Railroad Museum
- Promote local Arts and Crafts history
- Develop a high-tech conference center
- Increase the number of higher-paying jobs
- Add jobs to create population growth
- Create more apprentice and intern jobs
- Provide benefits for businesses that hire the hard to employ
- Encourage family-friendly workplaces
- Provide education programs that lead to jobs
- Facilitate welfare-to-work transition
- Combine all economic development agencies
- Reduce the cost of doing business
- Increase school/college-business partnerships
- Be the information technology hub of NYS
- Involve farmers in economic development
- Provide training opportunities for small business
- Buy local products and services
- Build bicycle paths, hiking trails, walkers paths, everywhere
- Improve facilities at public parks
- Build playgrounds for children with disabilities
- Provide children’s summer programs in parks
- Adapt abandoned buildings into indoor recreation
- Build an environmental education center & botanical garden at Burnet Park Zoo
- Increase collaboration of arts, dance, theater, and music organizations
- Plan a community-wide family event on New Year’s Eve
- Bring national sports events here
- Modernize city and county government
- Improve customer service in Government offices
- Increase citizen involvement in Government
- Create new sources of Government income besides taxes
- Improve sewers, bridges, and roadways
- Enforce housing codes
- Enforce noise codes and public decency laws
- Improve relations between people and police
- Merge city, county, and village, police departments
- Increase community policing