There is a very interesting meeting taking place this Friday and Saturday, Oct 5 and 6. Its called ‘United Vision’, Envisioning Our Future Together and it is two town meetings, one on Friday from 1pm to 5pm, the other Saturday from 9am to 3pm. Its purpose is to build consensus and bring together we Titusville residents into a harmonizing vision of what we want for the future. They have built a website for this visioning at www.titusvillevision.com. When you get to the site, you can download comments that have been made over the past week or so. As of this afternoon, there were 10 comments, 9 of them criticizing our city council and city government for allowing the City of Titusville to get into the predicament it has gotten into with roads, infrastructure, appearance, jobs, parks etc. Go take a look, and you can sign in and make comments yourself.
The event is sponsored by the City of Titusville, under the guidence of a private firm out of Palm Beach Gardens who facilitates the entire two days. I like the opportunity to get on a webpage, be able to state my views, and read other people’s views at my leisure, rather than having to go to a city council meeting and spend hours waiting for citizens to be heard.
1 comment so far. Anyone else?
on October 8th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Monday afternoon and the visioning process is over. From attending for an hour on Friday afternoon, I must say it was very well attended, almost standing room only, and what the group of 70 or so very concerned citizens were doing in working around tables of 10 or so, discussing various subject such as, ‘most attractive, most important, least important’ all in the context of what and how it affects Titusville in the future. I have been to these visioning sessions in the past, in fact we had “Transformation Titusville” back in 1995 and it went on for several years until it just wore itself out due to lack of interest, and lack of leadership.
It will take time to see how much traction this visioning process takes. With real estate in the gutter, with taxes and insurance still up in the air, this might be a difficult time to discuss the future, as we have some tough times up here in Titusville, and then factor in the shuttle layoffs, just around the corner, and our difficlut times may get unmanageable. We shall see how much vision our citizens get out of ‘the visioning’ of Titusville, circa 2007.
What do you think?
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