As Chair of the Neighborhood & Public Services Committee, I am responsible for organizing both Neighborhood and Business District Walks across the city. The purpose of the walks is to highlight problems in your community that require help from the city to resolve. Council members and key city personnel accompany representatives of your community on these walks to collect first hand information about your community’s pressing issues.
Increase interaction and communication between community/business district leadership, members of council and city staff.
Increase awareness of problems facing the city’s communities/business districts.
Move swiftly to abate smaller problems, and begin working on long-term solutions for the larger ones.
Get council and city staff a first hand look at what kinds of issues our communities/business districts face.
The overall goal of Walks is to improve our communities/business districts.
If a particular community or association is interested in hosting a Walk, they should appoint a liaison from the local business or community association.
The liaison should download and complete
this form and return it to my office by either mail or email.
City staff and community/business district representatives will gather at the starting location a few minutes before the scheduled walk time.
The liaison or someone designated by the liaison will take city staff on a walking tour to point out both positive developments and problems.
Tours should be limited to around 30 minutes for business districts or 45 minutes for neighborhood walks.
City staff will take notes and try to facilitate solutions to identified problems.
Neighborhood residents can visit the city’s website for quarterly updates on the city’s progress, beginning 30 days after the Walk date.
