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Historic Triangle Collaborative Completes Vision ReportBy Amber Lester Kennedy Sunday, October 02, 2011 After five months of study, the Historic Triangle Collaborative has drafted the Vision Project, which was formally accepted by the group at its meeting on Sept. 26. The Vision Project report is the result of months of study conducted by HTC summer intern Emily Grimes, a public policy student at the College of William and Mary, and HTC former manager Kyra Cook. It was drafted with the aim of helping decision makers in the Historic Triangle better understand issues relevant to participating businesses and organizations and to help localities understand how the region’s future is viewed by key entities and how those views may shape the community’s future. The Vision Project was presented at the HTC’s meeting, where the group recommended distributing the report to the James City County, Williamsburg and York County local governments, planning commissions, the Regional Issues Committee and to participants of the study. The HTC further recommended the project be presented at a work session of each jurisdiction, and that a joint meeting of the boards of supervisors and city council should be held early next year to discuss the report. The HTC is an informal group comprised of 11 community leaders, including the chief elected officials and administrative officers of James City and York Counties and Williamsburg. The group also includes leaders with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, the College of William and Mary, the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance and Busch Gardens and Water Country USA. Read the study here. |
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and did you just decide not to read the mayor's introduction explaining what HTC does? because they most certainly are not making laws or policies. they are coming up ideas and visions that could benefit the entire historic triangle area rather than the individual counties only thinking of themselves.
and there is nothing in their mission statements that would suggest their meetings should be open to the public. i also highly doubt they want to hear from people like you that probably have no clue what they are talking about but somehow think they are more qualified than people with degrees in public policy, such as the intern behind the project,to voice their vision ideas for a community.
Ron (except his first paragraph) expresses my sentiments very closely.
Don't like this type of "leadership" then get out and vote for better leaders, or where no choice exists, consider becoming a candidate for leadership (Think JCC BOS).
And oh by the way to "retired with time" you and me and anyone else that is an honest, decent, patriotic american are not allowed to attend the secret meeting of the HTC unless you are invited.
You might ask "is that legal" and the answer is maybe. The group takes tax dollars from the municipalities but no one is able to see the financials to determine how much of their funding is public and how much is private.
That's right, big corporations and non-profits are contributing money to an organization along with tax $$ to belong to a secret group that gets together and determines policy for the rest of us with no oversight or sunshine.
If it's not illegal it should be and those that participate should be ashamed of themselves. Hopefully one day, we the people will wake up and put an end to this B.S.