GROUP # 49 – THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004
Facilitator: Deanna Harms
Elected to the Vision Task Force: Marsha Mendenhall

(10) Government

• Best practice for example Zebra mussels (plus other issues)
• Government – service attitude, community input
• Use consultants too much
• Consolidation/collaboration
• Respect neighboring communities
• Pay raise – teachers/police/rife
• Keep talent/financial incentives
• Code enforcement (less regulations)
• Divide Wichita into 4 cities
• Tax outside users (suburban) for using & working in Wichita

(9) Education

• Youth leadership
• Quality education K-12
• Improve tech college
• Reduce busing
• Teach budgeting & three R’s
• Skills assessment
• School technology
• Match education with jobs
• Smaller schools & class sizes

(8) Private Sector Leadership

• Family values/parenting (responsibility/skills)
• Latch-key
• Business & school partnerships
• Against growth/improvements
• Increase support for River Festival
• Physical activities/health

(7) Infrastructure

• Streets
• Sewers
• Solid waste/trash incinerator/recycling
• Improve mass-transit (air/rail/taxi/bus)
• Extend Hwy 96 (south)

(6) Economic Development

• Port authority from port in Tulsa
• Keep people downtown
• Maintain downtown (new attractions)
• Market community (image)
• Good jobs/pay
• Job diversity
• Energy/wind

(5) Quality of Life

• Park maintenance
• Nightlife (evening hours) (for public attractions – 200/Exp. Place)
• Downtown housing
• Children activities (especially summer) & volunteer work
• Community beautification

GROUP # 50 – THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004
Facilitator: Sonja Armbruster
Elected to the Vision Task Force: Ron Sloan

(10) Education

• Higher teacher salaries
• Focus – classroom
• Reduce administration
• Youth recreation after school
• Life Skill 101
• Job training un-employed
• Higher education outcomes for students
• Tech training for students
• Keep fine arts in education

(9) Economic Development

• Downtown development
• Shopping Douglas
• Improve per capita income
• Economic development vs. entrepreneurial
• Image of Wichita development
• Reliance on aircraft industry
• Cowley Lake (support)
• Improve non-manufacturing pay
• Growth with justice (sensitive to all issues)
• Reduce outsourcing
• Emphasis on community development
• Minority (increase participation)
• Low fare/Wright Amendment (change)

(8) Health & Social Issues

• Men’s crisis center
• Coordination of social services
• Affordable & accessible health care
• Fluoride in water
• Marriage survival increase
• Cultural sensitivity
• Bridge diversity
• Un-biased media
• Local community issue
• Coordination of social issue

(7) Government/Infrastructure/Leadership

• Affordable car insurance
• Improve city/county relations
• Street safety/driving law enforcement
• Modernize IT support, etc.
• Government leaders to be living examples
• Streamline city/county government
• Imminent domain use decreased
• Full time jobs
• Road improvement
• Higher pay for elected officials

(6) Environment

• Recycling
• Landfill
• Green space
• Water quality
• River cleanliness
• Improve mass transit

(5) Children Issues

• Improving foster care consumption
• Foster care employment criteria
• Improve pre-K development
• SE – swimming pool
• Re-vamp SRS
• Local
• Improve care for children in residential
• Nicer amusement part affordable

GROUP # 51 – THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004
Facilitator: Charles Stump
Elected to the Vision Task Force: Roger Smith

(10) Economic development

• Support for inner city business & individuals
• Incentive for developers to develop inner city brown fields undeveloped lands
• Study to determine the impact of spending on outer city limits as opposed to (inner older) city
• Entrepreneurial increase and focus
• Increase minimum wage
• Improve air fare rates
• Develop agriculture vertical integration
• Natural resources funding i.e. wind farm etc.
• Diversity the employment pool
• Center of transportation (hub) – maximize our central location i.e. exporting & importing goods
• Expand convention facilities
• Unemployed training & assistance for down stream – unemployed, layoffs
• Continue to redevelop downtown
• Implement gaming/casino on city public property
• More south side economic development
• Help family farmers
• Attract new business to attract workers

(9) Education

• Better support for libraries & arts funding
• More vocational schools for workforce development
• No all day kindergarten
• Less administration in schools
• Keep school recess
• Education flexible to respond to job skills & needs
• Locate dental school here
• Encourage private schools
• School vouchers
• Eliminate busing program – forces busing
• Adequate education funding
• Job skills training
• Personal financial planning education for secondary students
• World class school system
• Expand after school services & day care both private, public non-profit

(8) Government

• Waste of tax dollars and improper planning
• Intra cities fighting
• More citizen input for development i.e. put to a vote
• Eminent domain for public purposes only
• Statewide vote to make Wichita the state capital
• Long range MAPC citizen input & commitment
• Listen to citizens
• Redesign MAPC to be more representative of community
• No government consolidation
• Do government consolidation
• Study for need of both city manager & mayor
• Deconcentrate poverty thru housing policy
• Judges selected from pool of lawyers
• More equitable distribution of city services
• Land grabbing by cities
• Recycling program to save dollars & land
• Decrease urban sprawl
• Redo zoning in regard to small business
• Redo zoning in regard to home business

(7) Health

• Access to dental care
• Improve access to community health
• Affordable general health care
• Prioritize projects of life threatening issues

(6) Quality of Life

• Sustainable neighborhoods
• Provide adequate infrastructure for city
• Intrastate public transportation
• Faith base education – unwed mothers
• Expand & improve public park land
• Improve quality of water thru conservation
• Less waste generation
• Network coordination of non-profit services
• Program for nonprofit startup
• Conservation of rural rights regarding annexation
• Plan & preserve green space

(5) Public Safety

• Maintain & develop sidewalks
• Hire more police & fire to reinforce community policing
• Study & analyze state audit on firefighters
• Citywide flooding problems
• Expand jail & rehab services
• Reduce toxic chemicals in schools & homes

GROUP # 52 – THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004
Facilitator: Vashti Seacat
Elected to the Vision Task Force: Elizabeth Bishop

(10) Infrastructure

• Freeway through south Wichita
• Drainage flood control
• Better road planning
• Provide services for annexed communities
• Do we grow the fringes at a cost to older neighborhoods
• Omit forced annexation
• Tax dollars more evenly distributed across all of the city
• Recycle program

(9) Economic Development

• Enhance promote airport/air traffic
• Community partnerships
• Reduce taxes (sales tax)
• Renewable fuel sources
• Diversity

(8) Education

• Teachers salaries – improve
• Better cultural ratio of professionals to students
• Improve test scores K-12
• Top notch vocational training center

(7) Quality of Life

• 4 x 4 recreation area (jeep) park
• Health disparities
• Smoking ban
• Arts & entertainment
• Reduce taxes (sales tax)
• Use landfills for other projects

(6) City/County Government

• Hold officials accountable
• Citizens against government waste
• Planning process access to all
• More communication of officials & their results
• An effective planning process that is accessible to all

(5) Public Safety

• Monitor gangs
• Youth prevention programs
• Reentry programs
• Preventative measures