Building Community (10 Responses)

• Have more diverse leaders
• Involve more people in community leadership
• Find permanent solution to regional problems
• Unite people to work for common goal
• Listen to everyone
• Lead community to develop values and vision
• Keep us strong as greater growth moves west
• Have metro and county government that will unite community

Stewardship (8 Responses)

• Be good stewards of resources: money and people
• Focus on needs of residents versus economic development and businesses
• Evolve from change-by-crisis mode
• Value youth ideas and interests
• Have youth serve on boards, commissions and advisory groups
• Involve youth and young adults in planning for future
• Improve good government
• Distribute financial resources more equitably – more to human services and less to new business parks
• Empower people to meet their own needs