Think Tank Survey Results
holly
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Columbus should have equal opportunities for all kids and provide funding for kids to go on trips and learn about different opportunities.
holly
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Provide jobs for many people through new companies like Skybus.
holly
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Columbus is a city with a lot of opportunity and a diverse group of people, and we should continue to promote diversity.
Al
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Have year-long school, with multiple short breaks
Al
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Using more fuel-efficient cars and try to switch to hybrids or alternative sources of energy that do not pollute
nupe1
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Increase reading programs in school. This will help them become professionals
nupe1
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
encourage -economic development in schools
Jon
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
Provide safe learning environments. Provide summer and after school fun educational opportunities.
Jon
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
Increase support of the 315 technology corridor. Offer incentives to other hi tech and biomedical research and development companies.
Jon
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
I believe that Columbus doesn't have much of an image outside of Ohio. It is the biggest city in the USA that most Americans know nothing about. Columbus needs to decide what it wants to be known for and then aggressively market that image outside of Ohio
s.wichman
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
More accurate assessment of distribution of needs. Offer leadership programs to ALL kids. By kids voluntarily choosing to join a leadership team, the ones who want to succeed will be less likely to be delayed due to demographic disadvantages.
s.wichman
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
Work closely with the DNR to adjust infrastructure development that will decrease environmental decay and ecological loss. Use GIS!!!!
emma
6/17/2007
Juneteenth
embrace new technologies and push innovations in the schools. Columbus schools should have the best technologies available.
Savon
6/17/2007
Juneteenth
They should have more hands on work for all ages exspecaily throughout middle school and high school.
riltree
6/17/2007
Juneteenth
Columbus needs to make education a priority. lets begin with a new more innovative approach to the educational system. Cities like Seattle provide a great model for us to examine and possibly even implement. Recruit a great teachers! not just those with t
vonnie
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
During school hours classes such as art, music, orchestra and band are just as important to a childs overall education as the academic classes
miller
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
Continue to revitalize the downtown, pass policies for smart growth and create opportunities for economic redevelopment of brownfields.
awesomeness
6/15/2007
Latino Festival
provide learning opportunities that include the arts, include the community (e.g., parents) in decision making for services provided by schools, change current school funding so that appropriate funds are allocated to the communities that need it the most
ddubs
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
More bike paths and non-car options for getting around downtown. Light rail and mass transit don't sell well here. Don't do it. But in a smaller environmet like downtown they will.
james
6/16/2007
Latino Festival
THINK GREEN!!! We need to improve Cota routes, and get them out to the suburbs, especially. Offer rider incentives (such as lower fairs for all college students who ride the bus to school, or gov't employees who ride the bus to work).
terri
6/9/2007
Arts Festival
1. Affordable higher education. More work-study programs for kids who's parents make too much for kids to qualify for financial aid.
tracy
6/9/2007
Arts Festival
Recruit highly qualified science and math teachers, and pay them well.
cb
6/9/2007
Arts Festival
Require more parental involvement. If parents feel like they are a part of their childrens' education, they will care more about how their children do.
darren grundey
6/10/2007
Arts Festival
allow for more self-directed projects; allow their own ineer voice be their guide. the more you can facilitate and nurture what interests them, the more 'fun' learning will become.
Sean Pfendler
6/8/2007
Arts Festival
The city needs to push companies to build office towers downtown. There is a need for class A office space downtown, but developers are slow to build. The 8 on the square project has sold out its office space. The problem is that there is too much unlease
Marsha Zabecki
6/8/2007
Arts Festival
Make sure all city offices are "Green". Encourage through incentives for businesses to go "Green".
SHERRY
6/21/2007
Clintonville Pride
Provide afterschool opportunities for children which further their education and not just as a place to play.
candice
6/23/2007
Gay Pride
Provide much more support and education for parents. There are far too many uneducated people raising children, and blaming schools.
hugh
6/30/2007
Riverfest
Get the school day back to its original length! We need to cut unnecessary administrative positions before cutting teachers... bring back year-long arts and physical education - these are every bit as important as math and science
runner83
6/30/2007
Riverfest
Proper education for the youth of the area is critical. People who will be entering the workforce need a good foundation in math and the sciences if they are going to contribute innovative products to Columbus' economy.
kr
6/30/2007
Riverfest
More environmentally friendly public buildings, considerable effort in cleaning up the Scioto River and preserving the banks along the river within the Columbus incorporated limits
linda
7/3/2007
Red, White & Boom
We need to start rehabbing homes and neighborhoods instead of moving out of the suburbs.
julie
6/30/2007
Riverfest
Restore the length of the school day that Columbus Schools had in the year before last. This would require raising money but it has widespread parental and teacher support. Columbus has the shortest school day of any local district. Restore the arts and y
Van
6/30/2007
Riverfest
Columbus should encourage recycling through education of the populace and by making it easier to accomplish. Currently, the recycling bins at our nearby park are often overflowing. Recyclables could be separated at the point of collection despite the fact
rkenney
6/30/2007
Riverfest
Columbus should plant more trees on our urban streets. Make the Olentangy river and the Scioto River more navigable and accessible for people to enjoy. Ensure that these rivers are protected from non-point and point source pollution.
steelers
7/3/2007
Red, White & Boom
actively promote Columbus's midwestern values, work ethic and diverse background across the united states
Joe Decker
7/11/2007
Westgate Pride
Enforcement against local polluters, working with the LEEDS program and discourage exurban sprawl with downtown, transit, and zoning as Portland has done.
dave
7/3/2007
Red, White & Boom
city needs to work with the school board and help the board make sure that the money is being best used to serve the needs of all the children of the district. I say this because there is no necessary reason why we should have a deficit, and good teachers
sergio
7/7/2007
Gallery Hop
Take the lead in environmental initiatives like green roofs,, green buildings. Columbus needs to take the lead on those issues.