Asheville - StratGen

What is our Top Ten list of things to change and how?

I see folks introducing a lot of causes and new initiatives. Feel free to create a Top Ten list of things to change and how. Post in comments and I will synthesize what everyone posts. Grant Millin’s Strategic Priority Master List

  1. Expand and enforce President’s Climate Action Plan and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Asking questions about trickle-down economics in Asheville is okay

Setting the community, state, and national bar too high worries folks. We know this one. I was recently asked why I would ‘criticize’ the Eblen Charities-Buncombe Schools-NCSECU teacher housing project. As a repeatable path to really dealing with our housing and poverty issues, do we have that now with the Eblen teacher housing project? Guessing… maybe?

Community innovation isn’t about subjective guesswork

As an innovation expert I can tell you simply increasing experimentation on poverty programs is not responsible. All the low hanging fruit is gone. The thousands of folks in Asheville actually experiencing poverty or hovering near poverty need responsible leaders at all levels of government. For example, the idea of some in local leadership

Buncombe tourism advertising needs to be an industry expense versus public expense

Here’s my email on the occupancy tax and BCTDA: Subj: Buncombe tourism advertising needs to be an industry expense versus public expense, 6/28/15 Greetings to those with local fiscal and legislative control over Buncombe County’s Tourism Development Authority, Heather Rayburn is right that factors at BCTDA’s inception in 1983 no longer apply. I wish the

Teamwork and an open source approach to our challenges can replace AdvantageWest

I have talked about the old A-B Vision program Citizen-Times supported around 2002-2003 with Citizen-Times managing editor ‪Josh Awtry and how that kind of forum is needed again. This new ‘community conversation’ program should take up where GroWNC left off. I think asking what’s next after AdvantageWest closed—and I also say GroWNC should be included

A New Strategy for Asheville

While there will always be another real estate development project for city council to decide, I look forward to also assisting in raising our expectations for today and tomorrow. While not my only agenda item, I feel certain a powerful anti-poverty strategy can be developed for Asheville. Next, Asheville has a range of initiatives related to