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Report on the June 1-2, 2006 Meeting of the New Cities Project (B)
Explanation
In February 2006, The New Cities Project asked Mayor Hanrahan to serve as one of seven steering committee members for its organization. The other steering committee members are as follows:
· Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City
· Mayor Tom Bates of Berkeley, California
· Mayor Dave Cieslewicz of Madison, Wisconsin
· Mayor Rosemarie Ives of Redmond, Washington
· Randy Primas, Chief Operating Officer of Camden, New Jersey, and
· Joel Rogers who is the Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (which staffs the group).
Conceived and organized by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz of Madison, Wisconsin, the past four New Cities Project meetings have been held just before or after the bi-annual meetings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (in Washington in January and in other city during the summer). Steering Committee members are asked to participate in monthly conference calls and to attend in-person meetings twice per year to the degree possible.
The introductory information from the New Cities Project reads, in part, "Cities can take steps right now to improve their schools, economic and workforce development, housing and transit, energy use, land use and recreation, and government administration. There are things they can do right now to get more support from businesses and the community, and to shape state and federal policies to greater public advantage. The New Cities Project helps mayors identify these opportunities and take advantage of them."
On June 1st and 2nd, Mayor Hanrahan joined the mayors of peer cities including most of those mentioned above as well as Mayor Heidi Davison of Athens, Georgia; Mayor Dave Bieter of Boise, Idaho; Mayor Dan Coody of Fayetteville, Arkansas; Mayor Kevin Foy of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Former Mayor Bob Knight of Wichita, Kansas; Mayor Mary Lib Saleh of Euless, Texas; Mayor T.M. Franklin of Des Moines, Iowa; Mayor...
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