1998 Visioning Session Goals

20th Anniversary Goal Highlights

87 VISIONING GOALS (unranked)

1. Open schools weekends, nights, and holidays
2. Provide equal , quality, education for all children
3. Increase the number of school days
4. Teach students to be good citizens
5. Keep training teachers and make them accountable
6. Combine city and county schools
7. Increase technology in all classrooms
8. Establish community scholarships
9. Improve services for all children, ages 0-6
10. Provide affordable, quality childcare
11. Organize more programs for teens
12. Foster independence and community involvement for older people
13. Increase collaborations and mergers among human services
14. Add diverse  and multilingual staff to human services
15. Provide affordable, healthful, and safe housing
16. Expand affordable, accessible, quality, HealthCare
17. Establish a hospital for children
18. Eliminate discrimination and racism
19. Build local pride and a positive attitude
20. Include people with disabilities in all activities
21. Increase support for volunteering
22. Teach newcomers about the community
23. Create one community calendar for all community events
24. Encourage religious congregations to form partnerships on projects
25. Make downtown economically vibrant and livable
26. Restore the Erie Canal downtown for boating, ice skating, and local history
27. Restore the Landmark Theater
28. Improve downtown parking and make it affordable, add trees, flowers, & lighting
29. Link downtown stores and museums with landscaped walkways or sky bridges
30. Develop and clean Onondaga Lake
31. Create pocket parks and community gardens
32. Build strong neighborhoods through participation by their residents
33. Stop further development sprawl, preserve urban and rural green spaces
34. Preserve older historical buildings
35. Make villages, towns, & city more pedestrian friendly
36. Improve public transportation linking all areas
37. Improve airline service and fares
38. Protect clean air and water
39. Eliminate litter and graffiti
40. Provide highly visible signs leading to community attractions
41. Combine all tourism efforts
42. Launch a national campaign to attract tourists
43. Teach hospitality tips for dealing with newcomers
44. Encourage Carousel shoppers to visit other attractions
45. Centrally locate & promote downtown visitors center
46. Enclose walkways around the convention center
47. Build a hotel near ONCENTER
48. Add more events year-round
49. Plant flowers and trees at all entrances to our community
50. Build an aquarium
51. Build a Native American Cultural Center
52. Establish an African American & Underground Railroad Museum
53. Promote local Arts and Crafts history
54. Develop a high-tech conference center
55. Increase the number of higher-paying jobs
56. Add jobs to create population growth
57. Create more apprentice and intern jobs
58. Provide benefits for businesses that hire the hard to employ
59. Encourage family-friendly workplaces
60. Provide education programs that lead to jobs
61. Facilitate welfare-to-work transition
62. Combine all economic development agencies
63. Reduce the cost of doing business
64. Increase school/college-business partnerships
65. Be the information technology hub of NYS
66. Involve farmers in economic development
67. Provide training opportunities for small business
68. Buy local products and services
69. Build bicycle paths, hiking trails, walkers paths, everywhere
70. Improve facilities at public parks
71. Build playgrounds for children with disabilities
72. Provide children’s summer programs in parks
73. Adapt abandoned buildings into indoor recreation
74. Build an environmental education center & botanical garden at Burnet Park Zoo
75. Increase collaboration of arts, dance, theater, and music organizations
76. Plan a community-wide family event on New Year’s Eve
77. Bring national sports events here
78. Modernize city and county government
79. Improve customer service in Government offices
80. Increase citizen involvement in Government
81. Create new sources of Government income besides taxes
82. Improve sewers, bridges, and roadways
83. Enforce housing codes
84. Enforce noise codes and public decency laws
85. Improve relations between people and police
86. Merge city, county, and village, police departments
87. Increase community policing

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