Monday, June 27, 2011

NC STEP Kick-off Suggestion Board Summary

Below is a list of suggestions grouped sort of by idea, written by our
fellow citizens at
the STEP-Kickoff event on September 25th, 2010.
Slight corrections  made for better understanding only.
Respectfully submitted by Margie Labadie.


*community park
*have fun activities for families
*make a water park like Laurinburg has*a pool
*more places that are fun
*Good parks
*A building for the youth to get them off the streets
*Open a teen center for the youth
*Start a venturing program for the girls and boys of our community
*better after school programs for the children after school and weekends
*after school programs:  story-telling, reading, art, music and dance
*More things for the kids to do around town
*get a skateboard park
*Town needs swimming pool for public use & on duty lifeguard during summer
*Youth center
*Better up keep on the public playgrounds for young families
*better Parks and Recs
*A  lego store
*Sports; more activities
*Youth based community activities
*a youth center for ages 10-18 yrs on weekends & after school
*playgrounds
*better parks and recreational activities
*Red Springs needs another major outlet, including sports or game rooms to give children something to do
*more fun things, like a Street Fair every month

*leadership seminars
*regular community events
*places to meet that are comfortable and friendly
*Movie theater
*more department stores

*bring in new restaurants (food)
*better dining options
*Coffee shop, community meeting area
*there needs to be more places to eat
*we need at least 1 good restaurant in town
*Restaurant and evening event (have in community center)

*Reduced noise large trucks coming through city limit
*beautify town
*get rid of all the abandoned houses in the city limits
*offer assistance for run down home at 106 East Brown Ave. Any assistance please
*parking lot at Family Dollar and Maxway has huge pot holes that need to be fixed
*cleaner places
* blighted neighborhood; demo abandoned buildings; enforce debris removal
*include more community info on town sign. (intersection of main and 4th)
*work on ‘patric house’ (?) at 215 East 6th Avenue
*clean up street on Grantham, Haywood, Brooklyn St. Clean up debris on street
*Remove uninhabitable abandoned buildings
*deserted homes and buildings in town need to be remodeled or town down
*Better places and cleaner
*Keep RS clean & green
*revitalize downtown area
*clean the town
*spray weeds on line area. to kill not cut.
*widen the main street; make parking lot for cars

*we need more job fairs
*Make jobs, more entrepreneurial thing
*More jobs!
*incentives for new businesses
*we need some jobs around Red Springs. *open some of these plant up. need job.
*need industry in town to provide jobs-our children are leaving and don’t come back here.
get money for unemployed, able people be paid to help fix up old houses and tear down others
*we need to open up some of the plants so people can go to work
*Youth employment project “rent a kid”
Get a solar panel industry in town!

*create a community garden

*high electric rates need to be addressed
*address extremely high electric bills
* Lower taxes / power bills

*community watch
*get crime off streets and have quicker emergency response in the town when needed.
*Help more elderly with programs for their home and with crime in the neighborhoods(1)
*Keep troubled youth off the streets - steer them in a better direction

*Help more elderly with programs for their home and with crime in the neighborhoods(2)
* come through Henley Street fixing up homes for senior citizens
*help disabled with housing repair

*More teacher, parent and community involvement. together we stand
*Red Springs needs to help the community by helping people
* More sports (stories) about the kids in the newspaper

*these ideas are nice (drawn heart shape!)
*people getting to know people is where it begins!
*Together-Lets get R.S. moving. written by J.McNeil, Mayor
*rethink what we already have



(2) same suggestion put in two categories: elderly and crime

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