We live at a profound moment in time when citizens must decide on their collective future. As the world becomes increasingly inter-reliant and vulnerable, the future at once holds enormous risk and enormous promise. To achieve favorable outcomes in the community we must cooperate with each other to bring forth a sustainable and equitable system for all. Towards this end, it is imperative that we affirm our responsibility to one another, to the greater community, and to future generations. We resolutely recognize working together is what makes real solutions possible. To wit, the concerns we hold are not unique to our specific community development demographics, however, the commitments for change summarized in this declaration may further stimulate your view, and therein, your strategic alliance. The community at large vitally needs collective positive change, and yet, for genuine positive change to occur and assure enduring positive roots throughout our society, we must go beyond symbolic gestures and create visible progressive change. At the start of this arduous undertaking, the benefits we presumed would materialize from countless constructive initiatives were overtime indistinguishable; nonetheless, we struggled and continued our pursuits for everlasting progressive change in our community. Consequently, we justly earned what we deem to be a “Quintessential Formulation Criteria” for harnessing the vision for positive change everyone speaks so homogeneously about. In summary, we learned to explore the perplexing questions, as that is where the real answers manifest. To wit, please consider the following “Key Formulation Criteria” for harnessing positive change! How do healthy communities thrive? How do we galvanize people who want positive change that fundamentally begins with self? How do elected officials and civil service institutions connect with positive doers and maximize the rare opportunity for genuine progressive development? How do communities that are historically disenfranchised purposefully transform from the destructive monopolies of drug dealers, nuisance bars, blight, high unemployment, diseases, bad health and desolation that have led to demoralizing chaos, adverse wastefulness and Insalubrious habitats? What are elected officials role to guide constituencies, articulate vital messages for change, deploy infrastructure resources efficiently, and help nurture healthy leadership, healthy ideas and wholesome results that would lead to healthy communities? Well, one of the first aspects of accountability is to acknowledge that there is a problem/challenge that is historic. Moreover, healthy communities do exist! What makes them healthy? How do they maintain their respective healthiness? Mayhem abounds, and underdeveloped communities are held hostage by long standing underdeveloped planning and inconsequential support processes. Ricardo Rose
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:05:41 +0000
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