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Nearly 500 Participants Helped Shape the Future of Shreveport-Caddo at the Great Expectations Visioning Forum! Saturday, August 22, 2009

Nearly 500 Shreveport-Caddo area residents from a broad range of backgrounds and neighborhoods throughout Caddo Parish attended the Visioning Forum for the Great Expectations 2030 Master Plan on Saturday, August 22 at the Shreveport Convention Center to help shape the future of the Shreveport-Caddo area! Seated in randomly-assigned tables of ten, participants discussed and gave input on a variety of topics, including:

• What places within the Shreveport-Caddo area do you most value, and why?

• What are our biggest opportunities and challenges as we plan for the future?

• What can be done to make Shreveport-Caddo a model of racial understanding and cooperation?

• How should the Master Plan address topics such as arts and culture, quality of life, environmental quality, housing and neighborhood revitalization, economic development, transportation, infrastructure and public facilities?

• What should the future of Shreveport-Caddo be like?

The response was a powerful outpouring of ideas, thoughts, challenges, inspirations, and insights. Discussions were facilitated by trained volunteer facilitators and responses recorded on networked laptop computers at each table. Electronic key pads were intended to record each participant’s input and provide a “real-time” summary of input from around the room, but network issues prevented many of the keypads from working, so participants used paper surveys to record their responses instead. Despite these technical snags, however, many rich and thoughtful conversations took place and a great deal of valuable input was collected by planners. The planning team is currently recording and summarizing all of the input received. A summary of all participant input from the Visioning Forum will be available on this website soon! (You can sign up for email updates here to receive a notice when the Forum Summary is available.)

 A surprise visit from the future planners of Caddo Parish! At the end of a long but productive day, Forum participants were treated to a special surprise: While their parents were working hard in the Visioning Forum, several children of Forum participants had spent the day in child care crafting their OWN master plan! They capped off the day’s activities with an inspiring presentation of their ideas for the future of Shreveport.

THANK YOU!!! The planning team sincerely thanks ALL Visioning Forum participants who volunteered their time to help shape the future of Shreveport-Caddo. Your hard work and input will help make the Great Expectations 2030 plan a plan that reflects your needs. We are also very grateful to the dozens of volunteer facilitators and recorders who helped make the forum such a success. We couldn’t have done it without you!

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