Colville's Action Items

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  • Volunteer bank (prescreened and ready to help)
  • A “One Stop” place to gather funds/write grants and coordinate and recruit volunteers
  • Organize retired volunteers through organizations like SCORE (Senior Corp of Retired Executives)
  • Coordinate community beautification activities
  • Community clean-up and meet your neighbor’s days
  • Create a “street sponsored” program/ block watch
  • Teams to educate in different areas: (Car maintenance, business plans, personal finance, life skills, job skills, why buy locally)
  • Local Micro bank-Business Loan Assistance Program ($400-500)
  • Develop youth mentoring-all ages-different approaches, career counseling, interviewing skills/work ethics/attend events (big brother/big sister concept)
  • Healthcare through the “Healthcare Tricounty” program
  • Promote tourism and appreciation of natural beauty of area
  • Expand community service requirements for Jr. High and HS students
  • Community Action Plan to tackle “Meth” problem
  • Research need and provide appropriate daycare services
  • Build an infrastructure for indoor/outdoor recreation (indoor pool/walking trails, etc.)
  • Developing trails could be a community volunteer program
  • Scholarships could be given in lieu for community service
  • Build a Homeless shelter
  • There is currently no place for homeless men
  • Current shelter cannot keep up with demand
  • Forum to study and change public policy that promotes poverty
  • Many laws encourage people to stay in poverty
  • Laws do not support the “working poor”
  • Property tax reform
  • Improve cost of doing business in town
  • Promote retail downtown/shop local
  • Improve funding for social taxes
  • Better networking of Social Services
  • YMCA
  • Daycare services
  • Eldercare services
  • Encourage education
  • Support Food Bank
  • Expand public library with youth programs
  • Keep family farms going
  • Develop Alternate industry
  • Provide Public Transportation
  • Diversity day (knowing each other & celebrations with Pow-wow, food, arts & crafts
  • Tiny Tim fund (addresses, medical bills & needs)
  • Family resource center (Senior help, legal help etc.)
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