What's the Big Idea?
From January 2006
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PETERS: “I am involved in putting together an effort to move the American River Parkway and all of our regional parks into a joint powers authority. Sacramento County property owners will be asked to contribute $25 to $35 a year to the independent association to improve and enhance our regional parks. Government can help implement big ideas by setting up various ? nancially cooperative entities, but just don’t let government drive an idea.”
KOLOKOTRONIS: “The governments can exercise good leadership. Look what SACOG did with the Blueprint Project. Look what’s happening now with the cooperative effort of the Chamber, SACOG and SACTO and the Project for Prosperity. As a citizen, I’m comfortable with that kind of leadership.”
OATES: “There is a crisis in leadership now in Sacramento that does not embrace and lead other counties. We can talk and talk, but until the region’s counties all get together and decide to do projects as a region, we’re not going to accomplish what we want.”
HARTLEY: “We seem to be afraid to change, and we should just get over it. Things impossible seem possible when change is visible. If the riverfront were improving, people wouldn’t sneeze at the idea of say, being hard-wired to Bangalore. Imagine civic leaders reaching as opposed to being satis?ed. We’re just too satis?ed.”
Affection for the region is what brought the participants to Prosper’s Big Idea Conference. Although they expressed a general level of frustration by the lack of proactivity in the Sacramento Metro area, they are ready and willing to participate in projects that will enhance the region. Meanwhile, the conversation continues…
KOLOKOTRONIS: “The governments can exercise good leadership. Look what SACOG did with the Blueprint Project. Look what’s happening now with the cooperative effort of the Chamber, SACOG and SACTO and the Project for Prosperity. As a citizen, I’m comfortable with that kind of leadership.”
OATES: “There is a crisis in leadership now in Sacramento that does not embrace and lead other counties. We can talk and talk, but until the region’s counties all get together and decide to do projects as a region, we’re not going to accomplish what we want.”
HARTLEY: “We seem to be afraid to change, and we should just get over it. Things impossible seem possible when change is visible. If the riverfront were improving, people wouldn’t sneeze at the idea of say, being hard-wired to Bangalore. Imagine civic leaders reaching as opposed to being satis?ed. We’re just too satis?ed.”
Affection for the region is what brought the participants to Prosper’s Big Idea Conference. Although they expressed a general level of frustration by the lack of proactivity in the Sacramento Metro area, they are ready and willing to participate in projects that will enhance the region. Meanwhile, the conversation continues…
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