Post in State of the City

Mar 19 17:56 UTC

Thanks to Mayor Coleman, who invites us "to seize the opportunities the
City offers and make saint Paul the Most Livable City in America."

Last Monday at Rondo Library, Cathi Lynman-Onkka, Jonathan Barrentine,
Ernest Farley and I table4d at Rondo Library. We handed out copies of
the Town Hall meetings, and had available the text copy of Mayor
Coleman's State of the City address (which can be downloaded at
http://www.stpaul.gov/mayor/ ).

The report covers the following broad areas:
*Education (Ready for School, Ready for Life, Second Shift/Out of
School, Higher Education and College Access, Lifelong Learning
* Public Safety
*Economic Development
*Invest Saint Paul
*Environment
*Infrastructure
*Soul (passion to make Saint Paul a better city)

For our purposes on Monday (to let people know of upcoming town hall
meeting) meetings and the state of the city document:
*The flier was a wonderful document. I would add that in the future a
link to where the State of the City address would be helpful.
*The printed copy of the State of the City document was too long. I
wonder whether a one-page document stating achievements and challenges
would be helpful for residents to get a sense of where the city is
right now. It would also be helpful to get a sense of how do we compare
from 2-years ago, 5-years ago...as well as a timeline of what we hope
to accomplish.

 From talking to library users, many of them do not who the mayor is,
much less what it does. I wonder whether something similar to this
document may be helpful.

What does the mayor do?
http://www.libertyhill.org/common/publications/libertyvote!/
MayoralRunoff/Pg3Eng.pdf.

We hope to do have a video kiosk next Monday at Rondo Library  (4:00pm
to 6:00pm) and get comments on the State of the City Address on video.

I hope we all get a chance to read Mayor Coleman's State of the City
address (which can be downloaded at http://www.stpaul.gov/mayor/ ) and
comment on Mayor Coleman.

Rosa Maria de la Cueva Peterson
St. Paul E-Democracy Outreach
Macalester Groveland