Lately, I’ve been talking to you about the US Conference of Mayors Findlay pays an annual fee of $3,500.00. I wanted to add more information to this conversation for your review.
Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors since 1986. It contains a lot of information and I know not everyone has time to read it, so I’ll just give you the highlights.
MICD focus: Arts & Culture, Equitable Development, Infrastructure, Policy & Planning & Revitalization. They almost sound like great ideas, unless of course it’s part of the Build Back Better and Green New Deal agendas that are all put in place to usher in Socialism/Communism.
1. “A Mayors Guide to Public Life” is one of the sources given by Gelh Institute, whose founder is Katherine Gehl and she was nominated by Obama to sit on the Board of Overseas Private Investment Company (I haven’t looked into that company, but you know I will, lol!). She later founded the Institute for Political Innovation. – These are the ideas they go to learn and adapt at the US Conference of Mayors.
2. In The Micromobility Playbook prepared by Transporation for America, used in this Mayor’s Institute of City Design these words are used “cities have had to rapidly develop new permitting and licensing regulations to maximize and harness their positive transformative potential to increase access, safety, and economic opportunity for all residents while also reducing congestion, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.” If this is not the Green New Deal, then I don’t know what is
Transportation for America, a source for the Mayor’s Institute for City Design, states they make complex transportation issues more understandable.
3. Another source they are given is Grants for Arts projects. Below is a screenshot. I’m not going to lie, when I saw this for the first time, I felt sick. While they Build Back Better and make it all sound great because we have so many projects Findlay is working on, which makes us the Micropolitan City we are, as I posted yesterday, it looks rather Dystopian.
Findlay, I’m afraid that they are not building the city for you. I have come to that conclusion through all my research, by hearing all the pushback from the residents the city is getting as they attempt to build it faster, and by noticing there is NO shopping or recreation for families that are employed here. They are building a workforce, for sure, but not the “beautiful, belonging city” they say that I desire for us.
I don’t know about you, but that’s not the city I want to live in. According to The World Population Review and I think an article in The Courier I haven’t read, Findlay’s population has decreased by .66% this may be one of the causes. NOTHING for families to do here besides work and drink.
In response to Bev C.’s question in some comment thread somewhere she asked what I’d do to bring people into Findlay, or something to that effect. Well, Bev, I’d start soliciting businesses that would bring recreation for the entire family like Sky Zone or Urban Air. I’d look for someone to come in and build a skating rink. I love the idea of a Recreation Center that can be used by the entire community. All these businesses need laborers to build and workers to maintain. These are just a few ideas.
As I’ve mentioned MANY times over, I was on the Strategic Planning Committee and one of the first exercises they did was hand out a half sheet of paper that was blank with The Courier as a heading. They had us write out a headline for our imagination of the city. Want to know what mine was?
“Findlay, there’s something for everyone! Large city entertainment with small town charm” We are missing the second part of the vision I wrote.
That’s why I’m fighting Findlay. I’m getting you the information you need to let you know which direction we are moving. Let me know if this Build Back Better plan is working for you.
VOTE! Haydee Sadler for City of Findlay Mayor, May 2nd.