ARTS & CULTURE |
- Strong audience engagement and virtual delivery
- Strong forward Momentum
- Collaboration
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- Prolonged shutdown and capacity limitations
- Diversity and inclusion
- Chronic funding concerns
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BUSINESS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
- Strength and growth
- Welcoming startup environment
- Strong education system
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- Skilled worker shortage
- Continued need to address wages
- Lack of sustained population growth
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CITIZEN PARTICIPATION |
- Robust civic engagement
- Interest in volunteerism and nonprofit support
- Improved voter outreach and education efforts
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- Low voter turnout
- Difficult to identify active voters
- Misinformation affecting participation
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COMMUNITY HEALTH |
- Collaboration
- Strength of health-care infrastructure
- Tobacco-use prevention
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- Mental-health and substance-use problems
- Access to care
- Children's health
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EARLY CHILDHOOD |
- Early childhood as community priority
- Adoption of Conscious Discipline methods
- Legislative support for funding
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- Economic disparities
- Child abuse and neglect
- Lack of support to mitigate post-trauma mental health effects
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EDUCATION |
- Graduation rates
- Expansion of learning opportunities
- Progress as promised
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- Achievement gaps
- Pandemic-related learning challenges
- Teacher shortage and recruitment challenges
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HOUSING |
- Collaborative spirit
- Civic engagement
- Influx of financial assistance
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- Shortage of safe, affordable housing
- Aging housing stock
- Housing instability
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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT |
- Economic engine
- Clean air and water
- Forward-looking public institutions
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- Extreme weather events
- Invasive species and diseases
- Concerns about water sources
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PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY |
- Expanded resources
- Community collaboration
- Enhanced technology
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- Rising crime
- Opioid proliferation
- Staffing shortages
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RECREATION, SPORTS & LEISURE |
- Community collaboration
- Trails and connections
- Sports tourism
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- Green space preservation
- Obesity
- Parks, trails and sports infrastructure funding
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TRANSPORTATION |
- Multimodalism
- Collaboration, engagement and advocacy
- Improving existing roadways
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- Traffic safety
- Consistent funding
- Public transit
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