{"id":8448,"date":"2020-10-26T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2020-10-26T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:40:32","slug":"lift-lakeland-community-input-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/10\/26\/lift-lakeland-community-input-event\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFT LAKELAND COMMUNITY INPUT EVENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Lift Lakeland<\/em><\/strong> event will occur at the RP Funding Center\u2019s Sikes Hall on Thursday, October 29th,<\/sup> at 6 p.m.  City of Lakeland Mayor Bill Mutz said, \u201cThe purpose of this Phase One meeting is to allow input from citizens at-large to shape the community-inspired Lift Lakeland Plan<\/em><\/strong>.  We will bridge social gaps with people-centered solutions and create a network of harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lift Lakeland Plan<\/em><\/strong> started when the Lakeland City Commission held a Community Forum event on race relations on June 29th<\/sup>, 2020.  That event sparked follow-up meetings with community stakeholders and created the foundation for the Lift Lakeland Plan<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great deal has happened since that initial meeting that took place earlier in the summer. The Lift Lakeland<\/em><\/strong> process included gathering input from the community to determine the most significant gaps in society to address racial disparities.  The information was consolidated into nine core categories to serve as a roadmap to meet our community\u2019s needs, which include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. PCS Academy & Career Exposure<\/li>
  2. Practical Life Education to Prepare for the Future<\/li>
  3. Leadership Development & Mentoring<\/li>
  4. LPD: Protecting the Quality of Life<\/li>
  5. Venture Capital & Other Support<\/li>
  6. Courageous Community Conversations<\/li>
  7. Community Opportunities<\/li>
  8. City of Lakeland Additional Potential Initiatives<\/li>
  9. Leveraging the Impact of Youth Sports Organizations<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The Stakeholders then reviewed these crucial steps to triage the plan\u2019s most critical aspects before introducing the Lift Lakeland Plan<\/em><\/strong> to the community. On Thursday, October 22nd<\/sup>, the City Commission then reviewed the Stakeholder responses and tweaked them further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mutz said, \u201cThe community event taking place on Thursday will allow us to introduce the top items recommended in each of the nine core areas and we invite our citizens to provide input before we finalize the plan.  This meeting is a time to showcase the plan\u2019s initiatives and invite volunteers to assist us in moving Lakeland forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A Lift Lakeland event will occur at the RP Funding Center\u2019s Sikes Hall on Thursday, October 29th, at 6 p.m.  City of Lakeland Mayor Bill Mutz said, \u201cThe purpose of this Phase One… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}