Friday, organizers with Destination Cleveland sent out follow-up material to the 84 stakeholders who participated in a two-day summit-planning session in December and said that attendance for the September summit was estimated to be 1,000. Community engagement and marketing efforts will be getting underway soon. These efforts will include giving the upcoming summit a name.
As for the summit’s content:
“While the exact objectives of the summit are still under development, the anticipated focus areas include growth, equitable opportunity and leadership, all addressed through a process that builds a culture of trust.”
The ‘Guiding Values’ of the summit were established in December. They are as follows: Accountability, Transparency, Courage, Love and Equity.
December’s planning session occasioned some controversy. Activists rallied outside 1801 Superior Avenue, home of cleveland.com and host of the session, to advocate for better representation among the summit’s designers.
“Nothing is scarier for poor and disenfranchised people than when rich people and politicians come together in a room to talk about the needs of poor people, without including poor people,” said Kareem Henton, of Black Lives Matter Cleveland.
These concerns were brought up explicitly during the design session, according to attendees Scene spoke with, which more than once created a tense atmosphere. But the concerns led to the creation of the “stakeholder mix” working group, one of five working groups that will plan the summit.
According to Destination Cleveland’s outline, the stakeholder mix team will be “focused on an inclusive process that builds broad buy-in and adoption of the outcomes of the 2019 Summit, emphasizing that people cannot feel that economic success is planned for them but rather with them.”
This article appears in Feb 13-19, 2019.
And, Taxin Jacksons response to all this will be to simply put another ma$$ive property tax for us property owners to fork over!!!
Its past time for him and thief Budish to resign immediately, and be sent right to jail for their constant financial mismanagement and shenanigans!!!
Until that happens, nothing will ever change in this corruption-filled, high-taxed city and county!!!
The only discussion about the poor in cleveland should be about how to get them to move out of state. We are the poorest, least educated, and worst performing economic zone in North America.
$5000, a one way greyhound ticket and a signature on a document that bans them from Cuyahoga public assistance for 10 years. Or if we have to pay more, fine.
Then, pour gasoline on everything from E30 to the heights, light it and let it burn.
No more investment in poverty. Instutution helplessness. Guys like Sam A need to get real instead of pouring out socialist trash day after day. Get the poor to move to where they can be useful to someone and learn not to be helpless and dependent. Yes, the sick and elderly are welcome but the others, including the single breeders should be cut off and shipped out. Theres no future here for them and talk of inclusion is nothing but another venue to leach off of those contributing to the citys future. My entire life Ive heard the same crap Sam is peddling every day and hes just pathetically wrong. Look in the mirror Sam and see what a horrible person you are to have contributed to the destruction of greater Cleveland.
All those that contribute to Clevelands decline like words like inclusion and diverse. When will talented and capable return to favor?