We should be utilizing all forms of popular technology to reach our citizens about what is happening in our city. We should promote and foster communications between residents, businesses, and visitors. We should be using Facebook for the older generations and Twitter and/or Instagram for the younger. We need a consolidated calendar so information can be found quickly. We need to stop making calendars and communications out of pdf documents that are not searchable. We live steeped in technology, we need to make it work for us.

I would like to see Rocky River adopt policy stating that our city welcomes diverse populations and that they will be protected in our city. We can send a strong message to people who consider moving to Rocky River and our children who look to us for guidance.

We MUST consider the environment in everything we do. We should be spearheading all things that protect the precious resources in our city. We are in a climate emergency. We need to act like it.

While we plant trees, we (33%) are not at the Cuyahoga average tree canopy percentage (37%). The canopy is a baseline for our green infrastructure!

We need to protect our water. What avenues can we find to do that? What policies should we consider? What building codes?

We live in a city rich with history, yet we are re-writing it everyday. Where is the heritage and how can we protect it?

Right?

I would like to see us copy Lakewood's example of supporting small business. We have so many larger corporations and not nearly enough small.

We can continue to change the culture around gun safety. We can put pressure on our state reps to change the laws so that we can be in control of our town, our city, our county. There is no "we can't". We can, we will.