I. Education

A. Skills Training and Life-long Learning

1. Additional investment in technical schools
2. Align educational opportunities with workforce needs
3. Available, capable workforce (4)
4. Better resources for people, job training, retraining, education (6)
5. Build/Support technical college (7)
6. Career development/job skills
7. Collaboration between community colleges – centers for excellence
8. Commercial pilot training
9. Coordinated effort business needs & education
10. Develop technical colleges, keep up with technology
11. Diverse manufacturing
12. Education to keep workers in Wichita
13. FAA certification
14. Family education – counseling
15. Get business more involved in training study to retain our kids
16. Health industry
17. Identify integratable job strength (skill sets)
18. Improve workforce development (5)
19. Integrated team to support education of companies according to their needs
20. Job skills training/re-training (2)
21. Job training for minorities/unemployed/drop-outs (5)
22. Job-training & GEDs
23. Labor shortage in manufacturing
24. Lifelong vocational education training (2)
25. More technical support for aviation industry
26. More vocational schools
27. Need more technical job support for all industry
28. Opportunities for adult education (3)
29. Parent education
30. Post secondary technical education plus adequate funding (2)
31. Public work programs to teach unemployed
32. Realistic evaluation of both jobs & workforce needs
33. Reallocate higher education funding to vocational
34. Retain youth
35. Revisit workforce Alliance training
36. School to workforce – needs beyond college – construction, etc.
37. Sedgwick County Community College
38. Skilled & knowledgeable workforce and training
39. Skills inventory
40. Technical education tuition rates
41. Technical industry (2)
42. Train for blue collar jobs – tech schools
43. Trained workforce – donor community
44. Under graduate
45. Upgrade tech colleges (electronic, graphic, etc.)
46. Use education to get job
47. Welfare to work programs
48. World Class technical education & training (2)
49. World class training facility to encourage job growth

B. Higher Education

1. Attract traditional students to local universities (i.e. WSU)
2. Develop WSU as a top research institute
3. Diversify colleges/universities (2)
4. Education
5. Education for entrepreneurial
6. Endowment for college student scholarship tied to residency
7. Entertainment opportunities
8. Excellence in higher education
9. Expansion/support/encouragement of programs at WSU (3)
10. Football @ WSU (5)
11. Greater university involvement
12. Higher education (6)
13. Increase percentage of bachelors degrees
14. Law school
15. Locate dental school here
16. More awareness of the word and modern language studies
17. More emphasis on research & development
18. Need to be able to rehabilitate criminals into workforce
19. Program for low income individuals
20. Promote colleges
21. Promote WSU athletics
22. Scholarships
23. Skill trainings for all levels technical education
24. Stop university tuition increases
25. Strategic marketing plan for higher education (utilize area colleges)
26. WSU – change image/perception
27. WSU & surrounding neighborhoods need to work together
28. WSU do more to attract local students

C. K-12

1. 12 month schooling
2. Abstinence education
3. Accessible training opportunities
4. Address ethnic issues
5. Address/Increase funding of public school system (11)
6. Adequate education funding
7. All day kindergarten
8. Allow individual teaching styles
9. Analyze “no child left behind”
10. Arena revenue to support schools
11. Attention to youth literacy
12. Attract & recruit teachers
13. Be competitive with private schools
14. Better career development in schools
15. Better cultural ratio of professionals to students
16. Better educate youth on need/importance of higher education
17. Better educators in schools
18. Better fiscal education
19. Better funding of trade schools
20. Better graduation rates (minorities)
21. Better/competitive pay for teachers (7)
22. Brain drain/youth sports
23. Broaden base for finance of public education – more than property tax
24. Bureaucracy in schools
25. Business providing support for parents
26. Career development media centers (K-12)
27. Carpentry
28. Challenge for all levels
29. Character Connection initiative to continue
30. Classroom discipline (2)
31. Classroom size
32. Common sense education (2)
33. Community outreach-teenage parenting
34. Community problems – schools needs (IRBs)
35. Community resources for the middle school citizen
36. Competition in public school system e.g.: privatization
37. Controlled child development
38. Coordination between business and the school system
39. Corporal punishment in schools pros & cons
40. Cross-cultural education for teachers
41. Cultivate citizenship, promote community volunteerism
42. Cut administrative costs in schools
43. Decline of art for youth
44. Decreased testing in schools
45. Develop a trust in public schools
46. Diversity bias issues
47. Dollars evenly distributed through schools – go away from magnets – to basis
48. Don’t pass illiterate students
49. Dropout prevention
50. Educating our children for a global market
51. Education – health care for disadvantaged
52. Education equity
53. Education flexible to respond to job skills & needs
54. Education for anti-bias – race relations, diversity
55. Education standards “Basic Rs”
56. Education takes to much money
57. Education to fill business needs
58. Education vs. indoctrination
59. Education, re: race relations
60. Educational foundation of technical education
61. Educational pay for performance
62. Educators need to be dedicated to area
63. Eliminate bussing (11)
64. Emphasize foreign languages
65. Empower leadership with vision (2)
66. Encourage informal mentoring
67. Encourage private schools (2)
68. English language & culture needs taught in community areas
69. English vs. other languages
70. Equality of resources for disadvantaged
71. Ethnic diversity
72. Evaluate school district spending & funding (2)
73. Excessive administration in schools (2)
74. Exchange student programs
75. Expand after school services & day care both private, public non-profit
76. Expand emphasis on social studies
77. Expand entrepreneurship education (youth) (2)
78. Expand International Baccalaureate program (East High)
79. Expand Parents as Teachers program (2)
80. Explain yearly cost per pupil (3)
81. Expose kids to better life options
82. Facilities
83. Federal problems, i.e., Education Mandates (Immigration)
84. Financial education for youth
85. Focus – classroom
86. Focus on people rather than buildings
87. Freedom in curriculum
88. Funded summer programs
89. Gang issues in schools
90. Global bench mark
91. Grants
92. Health education/prevention
93. High school graduates ready for college/work
94. Higher education for minorities
95. Higher education outcomes for students
96. Higher education priority – better utilization of taxes
97. Identify students within high schools for manufacturing positions
98. Immigration – no benefits for 5 -10 yrs.
99. Improve % of above ave. on assos.
100. Improve athletic facilities (3)
101. Improve computer literacy for high school graduates (2)
102. Improve high school students test scores
103. Improve quality of graduates
104. Improve quality of K-12 education (12)
105. Improve teaching & learning
106. Improve technical & vocational education
107. Improve test scores K-12
108. Improved arts education (2)
109. Increase access to technology for all
110. Increase after school educational activities/programs (4)
111. Increase emphasis on math/science
112. Increase focus on lower-income students
113. Increase graduate rates for minorities (3)
114. Increase graduation rates for all students (6)
115. Increase number of college bound seniors
116. Increase options in public education
117. Increase partnership between education/business
118. Increase public school pride
119. Increase pupil spending, decrease administration spending
120. Increase teachers salaries (5)
121. Increase up to date technical instruction per business need
122. Inform/integrate youth in careers/jobs (2)
123. Inspire youth development
124. Instill value & pride in education/schools (5)
125. Internship develop - apprentice
126. Job training/retraining
127. Junior achievement
128. Keep fine arts in education (9)
129. Keep school recess
130. Knowledge management (mentor opportunity) older/younger
131. Let kids play
132. Life Skill 101
133. Life-skill education for teens (2)
134. Maintain after school programs (2)
135. Mandatory life studies courses in high school
136. Mandatory parent training for at-risk students
137. Mentors – kids – professionals (3)
138. Mirror “Parents as Teachers” program
139. More community involvement in school programs (4)
140. More efficient school system
141. More emphasis toward Vo-tech
142. More interaction and positive opportunities for youth
143. More preschools
144. More vocational schools for workforce development (3)
145. More/better education for all (2)
146. Neighborhood schools (4)
147. No all day kindergarten
148. Not cutting school programs
149. P.E. emphasis
150. Parental accountability for student behavior (4)
151. Parenting & citizenship education (3)
152. Parents’ education for proper attitude
153. Partnership education & business
154. Percent of casino profits to education
155. Preserve arts, music & physical education (2)
156. Programs to keep young people out of prison
157. Proper staffing/teachers in schools
158. Protection of citizen property rights – curriculum
159. Public finance
160. Public/private initiatives
161. Qualify & quantify level of education at graduation
162. Quality & quantity of high school extra curricular activities outside of
163. schools
164. Raising standards of expectations for education system
165. Reading early
166. Refocus what we are training our children to do (in the job market)
167. Review public school policies
168. Reward students for high achievement
169. Scholarship awareness
170. School – district apportioned
171. School district consolidation (4)
172. School partnerships
173. School technology
174. School/community policing
175. Skills assessment
176. Smaller schools & class sizes (4)
177. Speak same language
178. Strong parent involvement (3)
179. Stronger basic education needed for area youth
180. Structured academic curriculum
181. Student accountability
182. Student involvement
183. Suburbs vs. inner city ( increase investment in inner city)
184. Supplies
185. Support staff
186. Teach basics (3 r’s)
187. Teach budgeting & three R’s
188. Teach citizenship skills to youth
189. Teacher retention vs. state req. - 3
190. Teacher tenure incentives
191. Teaching fiscal responsibility
192. Tech training for students - 3
193. Technical & vocational schools – meet needs of students & employers
194. Too much pressure on students e.g.: testing
195. Top notch vocational training center
196. Trade school tied to curriculum meets business needs
197. Train young people with sellable skills
198. Tutoring
199. Understand SWOT
200. Unique educational experiences is USD 259
201. Using retirees as mentors
202. Volunteers
203. Vo-tech
204. Youth & safety education
205. Youth leadership development (2)

D. Pre-K

1. Daycare assistance
2. Early childhood & Head Start program (2)
3. Excessive administration in schools
4. Expand support for early education opportunities
5. Higher learning expectations in early child hood
6. Improve pre-K development
7. School readiness – pre K (7)
8. Universal pre-school

E. General

1. #1 education in Kansas (2)
2. Accountability in education
3. Adequate financing for suburban libraries
4. Affordable education
5. Best of class education community in State/Nation
6. Better education – pay pre-K through college
7. Better quality libraries, more programming, programs for children, more money (16)
8. Better support for libraries & arts funding
9. Business & school partnerships (3)
10. Continue to improve education
11. Education to fill business needs
12. Employment forecasts & models needed to shape educational programs for area
13. English main language
14. Expansion/funding of downtown library (2)
15. Extensive revision of school busing system
16. Government funding
17. Help leadership take broader view of quality of life basics – education
18. Higher academic standards (all levels)
19. Improve all levels of educators
20. Improve education – college, secondary
21. Intern program (high school, college)
22. Internet/distance learning
23. More collaboration to pool resources (libraries)
24. Moving libraries to the information age
25. National reputation for high quality education K-University
26. Personal financial planning education for secondary students
27. School teacher salaries
28. Share resources across institutions
29. Strengthen all education (2)
30. World class school system

II. Quality of Life

A. Healthcare

1. (Free) testing & discount drugs
2. Access to mental health services (6)
3. Adequate, accessible and understandable health care (9)
4. Affordable and available health insurance for all including prescription drugs (5)
5. Area child hospital
6. Children’s health
7. City/County health
8. Community outreach to support teenage and single parents
9. Dental care (5)
10. Disease prevention
11. Drug & alcohol abuse, prevention & treatment (8)
12. Emphasize creative ways to improve healthcare
13. Enhance training for health professionals
14. Enhancing health care systems
15. Expand health department – services to smaller communities
16. Fluoridation (5)
17. Get Medical Society of Sedgwick County involved
18. Health care facilities
19. Health care for all – insurance, community programs (8)
20. Health care for elderly/support infrastructure (6)
21. Health clinics – public (2)
22. Health disparities
23. Health improvement
24. Health insurance plans for small business
25. Health/dental care – access, strategies
26. Healthcare access for under and unemployed, specialized healthcare – for poorer segments (4)
27. Healthcare… high pay jobs
28. Healthy lifestyles (4)
29. Improve access to community health
30. Incentives for disease prevention (wellness)
31. Include health care in regional health center
32. Lack of health care
33. Look at total health care needs for region (study)
34. Medical service expansion/diversification
35. More inexpensive (free clinics) health care around the city
36. Obesity
37. Physical activities/health
38. Prioritize projects of life threatening issues
39. Promote organ donation
40. Promote Wichita as Regional Medical Center
41. Promoting healthy lifestyles thru good urban design
42. Providers business/government find additional funding sources for uninsured and underinsured
43. Receive/promote completive healthcare insurance
44. Recruit dentists
45. Reduce toxic chemicals in schools & homes
46. Reduce/review health care costs (3)
47. Safety net for uninsured
48. Safety-health
49. Smoke free ordinances/ban (10)
50. Social services for underinsured children
51. Specialized hospitals “boutique” taking profitable business from hospitals
52. Suicide prevention/counseling

B. Recreation, Arts, Culture and Entertainment

1. $15 - $20 arts events
2. A Wichita landmark – i.e. River Walk
3. Abandoned railway tracks
4. Address problem of trains/traffic
5. Adult sports leagues
6. Affordable activities for families
7. Amusement park
8. Attractions – museums, art, etc. to recruit/retain workforce
9. Better parks/pools
10. Better publicity for cultural programs/opportunities (3)
11. Better variety of leisure and cultural options
12. Canoeing under Arkansas River
13. Children activities (especially summer) & volunteer work
14. Clean river with recreational usage (2)
15. Color Wichita visual/arts
16. Community attractions
17. Community goodness
18. Community ideas for Exploration Place
19. Connect our linear parks
20. Continuing art in construction/arena
21. Create a regional park, open space entity
22. Crime prevention by reaching juveniles
23. Cultural center
24. Cultural diversity
25. Dam the Arkansas river for recreational purposes
26. Don’t build in our parks
27. Encourage walking/spending time
28. Enhance recreational opportunities – lake
29. Entertainment & theme parks (12)
30. Entertainment development on the river
31. Equity in available recreation activities
32. Expand & improve public park land/programs (31)
33. Expand trails (walk, hike, bike) to connect parks (open spaces) with activities for all ages (15)
34. Exploration Place – losing money
35. Facility to market more venues
36. Free ballet in parks
37. Greater emphasis on outdoor recreational facilities (publicly owned)
38. Have pride in what we have
39. Herzog landfill into rec.
40. Higher priority for parks, open space & pathways
41. Higher quality of life
42. How to build athletic program
43. Improve Big Ditch to facilitate all types of recreation
44. Improve community arts education (4)
45. Increase diverse sporting events
46. Increase fun/safe youth activities outside school (4)
47. Increase support for River Festival
48. Increased recreational opportunities for people in area
49. Intergenerational activities (2)
50. Investment in community quality of life
51. Local entertainment options
52. Making Wichita a cultural hub
53. Metro park system – free park rec.
54. More (smaller?) themed festivals
55. More appealing activities for young adults (7)
56. More entertainment options (2)
57. More family entertainment (2)
58. More improvement for recreations for youth
59. More social events
60. More than 1 community festival annually
61. More theatre, sports, arts/cultural events (2)
62. Motor sports complex
63. Multicultural entertainment district
64. Music scenes
65. Nicer amusement park affordable
66. Nightlife (evening hours) (for public attractions – 200/Exp. Place)
67. Outdoor (urban) recreational facility
68. People who have never been to Exploration Place/Coleman Museum
69. Place for teens to hang out
70. Promote exercise, nutrition, smoking cessation
71. Promote fine arts (2nd tier)
72. Promote unique social & retail culture opportunities
73. Promoting local and regional artists (12)
74. Public sports venues are under-utilized & entertainment
75. Public transportation – smaller vehicles, additional routes, frequent stops
76. Reallocate beautification funds from roads to parks
77. Recreational opportunities for under 30
78. Recreational race tract/park free
79. Recreational trails
80. Revamp Sedgwick County Park
81. Roller skating park/recreation
82. Safe places for youth
83. SE – swimming pool
84. Senior attractions
85. Stop subsidizing Air Tran
86. Subsidized festivals
87. Support YMCA (4)
88. Support/improve cultural activities/arts (27)
89. Use river as unique enhancement
90. Utilize assets such as riverfront entertainment/dining
91. Utilize current outdoor facilities
92. Water park
93. X games arena with motor sports
94. Young family attractions

C. Diversity

1. Address ethnic issues (3)
2. Alternative punishment for drug offenders
3. Commitment to become an anti-racist community (5)
4. Common sense education
5. Cultural sensitivity/diversity (2)
6. Diversify ethnic community involvement – different nationalities
7. Diversify workforce
8. Education for anti-bias – race relations, diversity
9. Education standards “Basic Rs”
10. Education to fill business needs
11. Education vs. indoctrination
12. Embrace cultural diversity (13)
13. Focus on racial reconciliation
14. Greater equality among ethnic groups
15. Integrating ICT’s “small” communities into community (black, white, Asian, Hispanic) (5)
16. Job training/retraining
17. More attention to demographics
18. Obtain drivers license Latino
19. Place for Orientals
20. Promote equality of ethnic diversity

D. Sense of Community

1. Accept “Cowtown” image
2. Better public communication, especially public newspaper
3. Biggest resource – people
4. Build on our strengths
5. Build sense of community (2)
6. Change attitude about Wichita vs. KC
7. Community hospitality
8. Community image
9. Community involvement
10. Community pride/self respect (15)
11. Discourage negative imagery
12. Encourage media to be more supportive of local events (2)
13. Encourage personal responsibility
14. Expand good neighbor program
15. Expand volunteer center
16. Fair and balanced media, bi-partisan (3)
17. Focus on local population
18. Good things going on – people don’t appreciate or take advantage of them
19. Honesty in reporting
20. Immigration
21. Improve quality of life
22. Improve tolerance of opposing points of view
23. Internal self promotion, feeling good about ourselves (5)
24. More friendly to young adults/singles
25. Networking with cultures
26. People don’t appreciate community & promote positives
27. Perception of Wichita – quality of life
28. Perpetuate positive community image
29. Positive newspaper/TV coverage (14)
30. Prairie Proud
31. Promote Wichita as clean & nice city, not as Cowtown
32. Public apathy
33. Reasons to stay in Wichita
34. Recognize benefits of being regional
35. Rename Z00 – “Z00 Wichita”
36. River usage
37. Speak same language
38. Support for community wide core values
39. Venue for longtime residents to meeting with short time residents
40. Wichita citizens can be own worst enemy – need to improve our own image projections/citizenship (3)

E. Family and Youth

1. 24 hour community centers: cradle to grave, campus pre-K to 12, work release & homeless shelter
2. Affordable daycare (2)
3. After-school programs
4. Aging issues (health, housing, etc.)
5. Childhood hunger
6. Churches promote Marriage Savers
7. Concern for health of children – school menu, avoid pesticides
8. Create a family oriented community
9. Divorce rates (5)
10. Family activities
11. Family education counseling
12. Family friendly environment
13. Family stability (7)
14. Family values/parenting (responsibility/skills) (2)
15. Good place to raise kids & grow old
16. Higher standards & morals
17. Importance of family structure
18. Improve care for children in residential
19. Incentives for single income families
20. Increase parent responsibility
21. Increase social capital
22. Involve youth in adult decision making process (2)
23. Involvement in teen pregnancy prevention
24. Latch-key
25. Legal issues for activities for children
26. Make Wichita a place where kids want to say
27. Marriage survival increase
28. More healthy foods with Vision Card
29. Outreach programs for under 25
30. Parental responsibility for adolescent actions
31. Positive youth recognition, youth/seniors
32. Pride in community engagement of youth
33. Promote children involvement in community
34. Promote church & related activities
35. Quality of life
36. Reduce out-of-wedlock births especially among adults (2)
37. Sex education (3)
38. Single parent children programs (3)
39. Summer program for youth employment (3)
40. Support single families (2)
41. Support systems for family & kids
42. Teen pregnancy
43. Youth activities/mentoring programs (7)

F. Social Services

1. 24-7 homeless shelter (5)
2. Address homeless problem e.g.: housing, employment, shelters (11)
3. Affordable assisted living for chronically ill
4. Allow homelessness
5. Alternatives to incarceration
6. Assist to the needy for transportation
7. Better coordination of service organizations city wide
8. Business/government cooperatives for daycare (3)
9. City buildings more handicap accessible
10. City take active role in meeting homeless community needs
11. Closer consolidation of non-profits
12. COMCARE/adequate social services with funding
13. Coordination/strengthen social services (7)
14. Dealing with poverty (2)
15. Develop one location for delivery
16. Downtown needs services (groceries) (2)
17. Eliminate hunger
18. Faith base education – unwed mothers
19. Financial training
20. Foster care employment criteria
21. Funded summer programs
22. Human services
23. Improve runaway/youth shelter/care
24. Improve social safety net
25. Improving foster care consumption
26. Increase funding for lower income students
27. Increased young adult involvement
28. Increasing accountability
29. Indigent health care
30. Jobs for mental health
31. Like to see city a model city for the disabled (7)
32. Local community issue
33. Lower divorce rates
34. Men’s crisis center
35. More family services
36. More grab bars in restrooms
37. Network coordination of non-profit services
38. Parental education (3)
39. Primary car (prevention) cheaper than secondary/tertiary
40. Promote better quality of life for all citizens (2)
41. Re-vamp SRS
42. Services/support to single parent families (2)
43. Social services for underserved children
44. Treatment for drug offenders as opposed to long term incarceration
45. Volunteer opportunities
46. Wider doors in restrooms

G. Public Safety

1. 311 for non-emergency calls
2. 911 access (phone pool)
3. Affordable car insurance
4. Area public safety
5. Better elderly support services
6. Better pay for police/EMS/fire (4)
7. Big signs (accidents)
8. Community policing in schools (3)
9. Consolidation of fire, police & EMS (4)
10. Corrections reintegration (6)
11. Crime prevention (7)
12. Criminal justice reform (2)
13. Deter gang violence (5)
14. Driver training – enforcement – courteous (4)
15. Drug & alcohol prevention/intervention (3)
16. Encourage/promote public safety (2)
17. Expand jail & rehab services
18. Expand/support community policing (4)
19. Increase/enhance emergency services (2)
20. Increased personal security
21. Judicial system – juvenile, corrections
22. Justice & equal opportunity for all
23. Law enforcement accountability (2)
24. Law enforcement education for public on laws
25. Long term treatment for drug offenders
26. Maintain good police/fire
27. More cooperation between law enforcement & public
28. More executions
29. Neighborhood meetings with law enforcement
30. Police force training (2)
31. Prevent sexual exploitation
32. Prevent/treat teen rape
33. Preventative measures
34. Progress with BTK killer
35. Promote safe driving
36. Reducing recitivism rates
37. Safe community environment
38. Safety/crime prevention for youth (2)
39. Security – global concerns (2)
40. Study & analyze state audit on firefighters
41. Substance abuse
42. Youth safety

H. Elderly

1. Attractive retirement communities (2)
2. Elder care (prescription drugs)
3. Expand senior services/activities/centers (10)
4. Increase senior programs (Derby)
5. Integration of senior citizens into community
6. Keep our retired citizens in Wichita (4)
7. More discounts for seniors
8. Quality of life for elderly
9. Re-engage seniors

III. Infrastructure

A. Growth Management

1. Arena
2. Better RV parks (2)
3. Better zoning – better architecture (2)
4. Build infrastructure
5. Building & maintain sustainable economy
6. Cell tower control
7. City of Wichita (greater diversity in planning)
8. City to develop “in-fill” instead of urban sprawl
9. Contain urban sprawl (16)
10. Control suburban sprawl (3)
11. Controlled growth
12. Create a viable, strategic plan endorsed by the citizens to enhance the physical form of the community & create livability
13. Diversity in city planning “more participation”
14. Do we grow the fringes at a cost to older neighborhoods
15. Eastside/Westside equality
16. Emphasize prairie architecture
17. Encroachment on McConnell AFB
18. Implement previous studies
19. Industrial park needed
20. Infrastructure development (6)
21. Land use management/planning (8)
22. Limit outsourcing
23. Maintain & develop sidewalks
24. Metropolitan planning by region
25. Mixed zoning (4)
26. Modify zoning ordinances to promote growth
27. More citizen input on Comprehensive Plan (2)
28. More sidewalks
29. MSA versus ICT
30. Planning developments – smart growth – sprawl (3)
31. Police & Fire protection
32. Provide adequate infrastructure for city
33. Recycling (2)
34. Redo zoning in regard to home business (2)
35. Regional development/planning (2)
36. Re-zoning (3)
37. Smart city planning
38. Stricter controls on development
39. Study cost of development – drainage, water/sewer/police/fire
40. Tax dollars more evenly distributed across all of the city
41. Urban growth boundaries forcing redevelopment
42. Urban master planning (2)
43. Use of land south of Lincoln & west of river
44. Utilize what we have
45. Who wants a bigger more crowded community

B. Transportation

1. 4 lane highway west of state line
2. 47th & Broadway interchange
3. Affordable airfares (18)
4. Air services
5. Airline hub (17)
6. Airport development (7)
7. Airport proposal
8. Amtrak service (5)
9. Ark River navigation – Wichita – Tulsa – Great Bend
10. Attract major airline (2)
11. Attract west bound discount air carrier
12. Auto inspection policy
13. Barges roads – railroads
14. Beautifying streets
15. Better public transportation system – mechanism so people will use it (4)
16. Better road planning (9)
17. Bike trail improvement
18. Bio diesel
19. Bridge over Big Ditch
20. Bring K-96 around
21. Build better roads (that last longer)
22. Business service, transportation, bike lanes, etc.
23. Care of streets in residential areas (2)
24. Carpooling
25. Clean public streets
26. Complete road & highway improvements
27. Comprehensive highway linkages to major cities
28. Confusion of one-way streets downtown
29. Coordination of road priorities
30. Co-wide mass transit – regional transit (26)
31. Create southern loop by-pass (Andover, Mulvane, Haysville, Goddard, K-96)
32. Develop/encourage use of mass transit
33. Dirt roads still exist on west side even after Mayoral pledge to only proceed with paved (3)
34. Divided streets with trees & shrubs can cause obstruction of views for drivers & added work to communities
35. East/West interstate thru Wichita (2)
36. Eliminate need for autos (2)
37. Freeway connecting Haysville/Mulvane/Derby/Wichita area (2)
38. Get rid of turnpike tolls in metro area
39. Good road system/traffic management
40. Good streets
41. High speed rail transportation
42. Highway reconstruction
43. Highway to complete the outer loop (3)
44. Highway/Regional Airport system that connects
45. I-66
46. Improve access to Towne West from Kellogg (2)
47. Improve bus service – longer hours
48. Improve efficiency of street building/repair
49. Improve mass-transit (air/rail/taxi/bus) (2)
50. Improve traffic flow through downtown
51. Improve transportation access to Wichita
52. Improved street drainage
53. Infrastructure – light rail/mass transit
54. Intelligent transportation system
55. Intermodal industrial park (3)
56. Intermodal transit center (passenger rail & bus)
57. Interstate access
58. Intrastate public transportation
59. Kid friendly transportation
60. Land use (northwest by-pass)
61. Loop SE to SW to NW
62. Make facilities (I.e. Lord’s Diner) more accessible to city’s outskirts
63. Make it easier to get to Wichita
64. Make Wichita a port city
65. Mass transit (10)
66. Mentally & physically disabled specialized transportation
67. Mid Ark Valley development association (expand waterway)
68. Monorail system
69. More 4-lane
70. More attractive bridges/thoroughfares (2)
71. More stop signs in residential neighborhoods
72. Move traffic more efficiently
73. Navigable waterway
74. NW & SW by-pass/US-54 thru Goddard
75. Overpasses in city
76. Parking
77. Parks Department
78. Port authority from port in Tulsa
79. Public representation prior to ordinance in action
80. Rail transportation coast to coast
81. Railroad (efficiency, damage of tracks, vehicles) (2)
82. Railway crossing delays (2)
83. Rebuild sidewalks as often as streets (2)
84. Reduce traffic congestion
85. Regional railroad system
86. Resolve long standing traffic issues
87. Rural water district
88. Salt on streets in winter
89. Specialized transportation for mentally & physically disabled & elderly (evenings & weekends)
90. Stay ahead on major highways
91. Stop financing airlines
92. Street maintenance (2)
93. Traffic – general – 21st & Maize area
94. Traffic flow across Big Ditch
95. Train/car interaction
96. Trains – service, terminal
97. Transportation planning (7)
98. Trolley car/railroad lines
99. Trolley to promote tourism
100. Turnpike free to Oklahoma line
101. US 54, 400: 4 lanes

C. Water, Sewer and Other Utilities

1. 13th St. bridge – ditch
2. Alternative energy sources (3)
3. Aquifer pollution
4. City proactive with utilities
5. Clean river/environment (5)
6. Community compost pile
7. Consider recycling water
8. Cost of energy
9. County wide waste management (2)
10. Cowley County dam & water (Anti!)
11. Cowley Lake (support) (10)
12. Cowskin & Calfskin flooding problems – fix instead of patch problems
13. Creek/flood control improvement (3)
14. Curbside recycling (6)
15. Energy policy
16. Environmental/water quality
17. Flood control, east side, west side, street (15)
18. Forget downtown arena
19. Free recycling
20. Green space
21. Improve digital infrastructure (2)
22. Improve water quality & natural resources (14)
23. Infrastructure improvements
24. Inner city restoration
25. Landfill – yes or no? (10)
26. Less waste generation
27. Let citizens decide downtown arena
28. Long term trash solution/incinerator
29. Maintain streets, waterways & fix flooding
30. Mass appliance disposal – Freon
31. Motor oil recycling
32. Power generation
33. Progressive trash management policy
34. Protect water resources
35. Provide electricity
36. Quality of drinking water (3)
37. Recycle program (39)
38. Recycling/manage waste water
39. Redevelop riverbank
40. Reduce residential/commercial utility cost
41. Respect water quality
42. Sewers
43. Solid waste/trash incinerator/recycling (2)
44. Tire recycling
45. Use landfill as mountain(s) for snow slopes (2)
46. Water issue – more water, no water, recycle water, grass that need no water
47. Wind power generators/earth smart (7)

D. Environment and Natural Resources

1. Affordable tree trimming
2. Beautify our city
3. Clean Arkansas River
4. Clean environment/air pollution (56)
5. Conservation
6. Designated fireworks areas
7. Dirty river vs. River City image (desired)
8. Emphasize open & park space
9. Environmental issues/responsibility (5)
10. Environmental preservation: clean water, air, etc.
11. Flood control – Ark River navigation
12. Green space between Wichita & suburbs
13. Improve ecology (2)
14. Lower noise pollution
15. More lakes & water
16. Plan & preserve/increase green space (5)
17. Pollution – air, ground water, water supply
18. Preservation/restoration (2)
19. Public smoking ban (8)
20. Redevelop downtown area (2)
21. Utilizing/promoting national resources

E. Housing

1. Changes in housing (2)
2. Decent workforce housing
3. Enhancing mid. Income housing opps.
4. Have nice place to raise children
5. Home ownership programs
6. Housing quality
7. Inner city revitalization/residential (3)
8. Mandatory rental properties be at “code”
9. Mixed use areas
10. More housing choices (smart growth, affordability)
11. Promote/develop affordable living
12. Rental properties at code (2)
13. Tax abatements for housing renov.

F. Downtown

1. “St. Louis Arch” type attractions
2. Arena etc. mission statement
3. Arena/Arena parking – Cessna Stadium
4. Big enough arena – 15,000
5. Build a 20,000 seat downtown arena (4)
6. Build downtown arena (17)
7. Building demolition for downtown
8. Business incubator
9. Century II renovations
10. Clean up downtown (2)
11. Coliseum projects – select only one, or make each special purpose
12. Continuation of Old Town development (2)
13. Core area development
14. “Country Club Plaza” parking plan
15. Create desirable housing in inner city (5)
16. Creative uses for vacant downtown buildings
17. Decide downtown development by public vote
18. Deconcentrate poverty thru housing policy
19. Develop an enclosed tennis facility
20. Development outside downtown and inside downtown
21. Direction – finding signage
22. Downtown development, revitalization (31)
23. Downtown ownership (problem solving who owns – verification?) (2)
24. Downtown parking
25. Drainage – civil engineer – south side
26. Economic development fund (downtown projects)
27. Elevator fund
28. Entertainment
29. Entertainment development/river
30. Environmental remediation fund (inside buildings)
31. Extend façade program (other streets & tall buildings)
32. Exposition Hall expansion
33. Fix up Coliseum
34. Free downtown parking (2)
35. “Green” street program
36. Housing incentives
37. Improve core area – incentives residential (2)
38. Inner cities not wastelands (2)
39. Keep people downtown
40. KTTI campus (South Market)
41. Land lease clean up
42. Maintain downtown (new attractions) (4)
43. Make Old Town/downtown more of an after work destination (2)
44. More forward with Water Walk (5)
45. More trees & less pavement downtown (2)
46. Need downtown services (grocery stores, cleaners, drug stores)
47. Neighborhood stabilization (Midtown, South Central, Delano, etc.)
48. New African-American Museum
49. New Aviation Museum
50. No arena (3)
51. Old Cow Town expansion
52. Old Town garage #3 (sour of Hall of Fame?)
53. Pave 400 block of N. Mosley
54. Performing arts center
55. Preserve & restore historical sites and amenities
56. Programs to rebuild community - restore inner city housing/communities
57. Promote synergy among tourist attractions
58. Public restrooms in Old Town & parks (2)
59. Public transportation
60. Redevelop downtown river bank
61. Repave Washington St.
62. River Walk – let users pay for
63. Road projects
64. See people downtown, living, working, etc.
65. Shopping Douglas
66. Slow urban sprawl – revitalize core
67. Smoking policies – increase smoke free environment
68. Sports Hall of Fame displays
69. Taxis
70. Traffic – left turn signals
71. Trash- long term waste management
72. Two-way main street (Douglas to Murdock) and possibly others
73. Use river as unique enhancement (3)

G. Redevelopment

1. 21st street development
2. Better parking (downtown)
3. Better shuttles & access to downtown
4. Develop/revitalize older neighborhoods (3)
5. Develop impact fees (based on density, access & services)
6. Improve low-income areas
7. Incentive for developers to develop inner city brown fields undeveloped lands
8. Incentive programs to improve low rent areas
9. Increase pride in home – neighborhood ownership
10. Inner city government development
11. Inner city restoration
12. More south side economic development
13. Preserve older communities and control urban sprawl
14. Refurbish industrial core
15. Revitalize black/minority communities (2)
16. SW development implementation
17. Tear down vacant buildings
18. Urban renewal

H. Neighborhoods

1. Adherence to grandfather rules
2. Beautification (2)
3. City more responsive to neighborhoods & citizens rather than developers; BIZ.com, MAPC, WABA, WIBA
4. City to work w/ neighborhoods regarding district planning
5. Clean up areas in need (3)
6. Community development (2)
7. Enforcement of existing ordinances
8. Ethnic diversity (neighborhoods)
9. Improve longevity in communities
10. Invest in, preserve, improve quality neighborhoods (3)
11. Maintain current infrastructure
12. More support for existing neighborhoods (2)
13. Neighborhood association involvement (8)
14. Neighborhood development (3)
15. Neighborhood development/Old Town/Downtown Development
16. Neighborhood identities
17. Neighborhood maintenance
18. Neighborhood quality of life
19. Outside downtown development
20. Preserve & restore historical sites & amenities
21. Preserve older communities and control urban sprawl
22. Pride of ownership in communities
23. Upkeep of rental properties

I. Historical Preservation

1. Historical preservation (8)
2. Historical preservation with tourism
3. Identifiable historic district

J. Beautification & Attractiveness

1. Beautify river in south Wichita
2. Beautify Wichita incentive
3. Better signage (maintenance) (2)
4. City beautification programs
5. Clean up city/eyesores (refineries)
6. Clean-up neighborhoods
7. Development & planning/beautification with common sense (2)
8. Image
9. Improve appearance for visitors
10. Improve image in all areas of the city (curbside appeal in neglected community)
11. Improve skylines
12. Make city attractive for youth
13. Make city attractive to visitors/residents
14. Nice entry, dress up entries
15. Reduce visual clutter (signs tower)

K. Maintenance

1. Better training for street maintenance crews
2. City maintenance – keep areas clean
3. Code enforcement improvement
4. Maintain current infrastructure
5. Traffic infrastructure (maintain/improve)

IV. Economic Development

A. Aggressive Economic Development/Targeted Industry

1. Address unemployment issues
2. Against growth/improvements
3. Aircraft jobs
4. Alternative agriculture (land institute)
5. Analyze regional & national competitors: 500 mile radius
6. Attract complementary business
7. Attract educated immigrants
8. Attract high paying jobs
9. Attract more small plane & start-up companies
10. Attract new businesses (13)
11. Attract new jobs
12. Attract new jobs (8)
13. Attract retirees to Wichita
14. Attract/cultivate younger residents & workers including minorities (9)
15. Balanced employment opportunities
16. Better funding for business development
17. Better image marketing/better public image (20)
18. Better marketing of local manufacturing
19. Better utilize McConnell retirees
20. Better/more positive self image (3)
21. Boomerang Group – young people
22. Bring medium-size growing companies to Wichita
23. Bringing in different industries besides government
24. Broader corporate leadership for economic development
25. Build wind turbines
26. Build world class aircraft maintenance facility (7)
27. Business development within neighborhoods
28. Buy Wichita
29. Capitalization of “Heartland” hub
30. Careers matching educational levels
31. Center of transportation (hub) – maximize our central location i.e. exporting & importing goods (4)
32. Chamber get more aggressive with new business
33. Chamber of Commerce more active in promoting Wichita activities
34. Closing of McConnell AFB
35. Cohesive definition of MSA
36. Community partnerships
37. Competitive pay scales (2)
38. Comprehensive marketing strategy & accountable sales organizations
39. Confusion about growing Wichita or maintaining status quo
40. Contact point for business leaving
41. Coordinate finance industry to attract economic development
42. Core competencies & sell it
43. Cost of living
44. Create image of a 580,000 MSA
45. Creating recycling businesses
46. Creative class to promote vibrancy
47. Decline of standard of living
48. Develop agriculture vertical integration (2)
49. Develop ancillary industries – shared workforce
50. Develop computer & electronic industry
51. Develop economic plan
52. Develop new industry that matches current skill sets
53. Develop renewable energy industries
54. Diversification of business & industry/jobs (38)
55. Educate community about current resources
56. Encourage global visioning
57. Energy/wind
58. Expand overseas markets for Wichita/Kansas products
59. Expansion/support of WSU programs at city & state level
60. Focus on history & culture of Wichita – PR & marketing
61. Free market principle
62. Full time jobs
63. Funding/budgeting
64. Generate hi-tech jobs/products (8)
65. Generation X leaving in high numbers
66. Geographically inclusive of MSA
67. Get more jobs – control taxation
68. Get rid of objectionable businesses
69. Global diversity
70. Growth with justice (sensitive to all issues)
71. Highlight value of existing business
72. Highways/improved distribution
73. Hot spot for consultants to live & work
74. How to measure and define economic development (2)
75. Image of Wichita development
76. Improve non-manufacturing pay
77. Incentives to retain high school and college graduates (3)
78. Increase governmental employment
79. Increase manufacturing
80. Increase/retain number of high paying, well educated jobs (17)
81. Job creation and recognizing life experience
82. Job opportunity for training older adults
83. Job quality expansion (4)
84. Jobs for the future
85. Jobs in inner city & for teens
86. Jobs paying livable wage (3)
87. Keep & attract corporate headquarters (2)
88. Keep & grow talented young professionals (35)
89. Keep industries we have HERE and diversify/grow those (9)
90. Keep McConnell AFB (2)
91. Keeper of Plains (landmark)
92. Keeping workforce in Wichita
93. Limiting outsourcing
94. Long term tech plan
95. Loss of agricultural business (preservation of)
96. Make Wichita “true” Air Capital (2)
97. Market our city – What is our identity? (3)
98. Marketing a positive image of south Wichita
99. Marketing the spirit within & outside Wichita
100. Maximize central location U.S.
101. Medical services highest employer – grow this area (2)
102. More awareness of business & C of C impact
103. More jobs for the disabled - 2
104. More technical jobs - 2
105. Motor sports - 1
106. Natural resources funding i.e. wind farm etc.
107. Need to develop jobs other than manufacturing (bio sciences, medical,
etc.)
108. Pay for develop with revenue other than tax dollars
109. Planning a growth
110. Promote aircraft repair business for laid off workers
111. Promote and grow support for our community
112. Promote auto manufacturing
113. Promote clean environment industries
114. Promote industries with alternative energy sources
115. Promote jobs for retirees
116. Promote outside money coming into community
117. Pyrolysis
118. Rail services – play up geographical location – distribution hub - 2
119. Raise median income
120. Raising levels of compensation
121. Reasonable growth
122. Reasons to go downtown
123. Recognize best easiest way to reduce taxes is to grow
124. Recruitment/retention to stay in Kansas
125. Reduce outsourcing
126. Regional economic development - 2
127. Reliance on aircraft industry
128. Renewable energy hub
129. Renewable fuel sources
130. Restructure to compete globally
131. Retain Boeing
132. Return to days of 110% income level (median average)
133. Revised economic model for service industry
134. Save companies & require they reinvest locally
135. Sell Wichita
136. Stronger regional collaboration among cities counties in south central
Kansas
137. Study what growing communities are doing (i.e. Johnson Co.) (2)
138. Tolerance, tech, talent
139. Utilize what we have, biggest resource – people

B. Business Climate

1. Affordable property insurance
2. Better incentives for small business (2)
3. City/county metro partnership
4. Clawbacks
5. Communication on tax breaks – impacts co/schools
6. Communities need easy access to “how to’s” for area issues (recycling, transportation, etc.)
7. Concentrate on image – de-emphasize tourism
8. Conflict of interest between business & government/politicians
9. Education friendly Chamber
10. Energy costs
11. Establish a brand identity for city (worldwide) (9)
12. Evaluate market needs of all (prior to setting objectives)
13. Examine tax abatement program
14. Friendly to business taxation regulation
15. Fund marketing of ICT – re-evaluate Fair Fares
16. Government laws & regulations stifle new business
17. Government subsidies/IRBS in business – how long, when to stop, how equitable, what kind of businesses (7)
18. Grants
19. Improve air fare rates
20. Incentives for corporations (2)
21. Increase minimum wage
22. Less government regulation on refineries
23. Less zoning & nuisance/environmental ordinances to grow small business (4)
24. Make friendly to business
25. Maximize private funding
26. Minimum taxation
27. Monitor outsourcing of businesses who receive tax benefits
28. Overburden tax on business
29. Partnering with small cities – joining city & counties
30. Preserve service industry
31. Promote government programs for businesses addressing expansion & training
32. Promote Wichita as Air Capital
33. Provide incentives for companies that bring in revenue from outside our region
34. Reduce taxes (sales tax)
35. Shared public & private risk for economic development projects
36. Should government be in the development business
37. Stop bonds to biz that goes overseas
38. Tax abatement for all to make local business more competitive globally
39. Tax break for small businesses
40. Tax incentives
41. Unemployment services
42. Wichita rank as pro business for all

C. Tourism and Visitors

1. 4 x 4 recreation area (jeep) park
2. Affordable hotels & more of them (2)
3. Aircraft companies involved with air museums
4. Ambassadors for Wichita- Tourism
5. Better facilities for conferences, other activities – to bring visitors to town
6. Better marketing of bed & breakfasts
7. Better/more restaurants
8. Casinos (12)
9. Casinos in Old Town (2)
10. Casinos to offset taxes
11. Change Cowtown name to Old West Wichita
12. Clean up closed industry
13. Expand convention facilities (2)
14. Expand dog track
15. Funding needed for Convention & Visitor’s Bureau (2)
16. Hotels near Universities
17. Implement gaming/casino on city public property
18. Improve signage for tourists
19. Improve tourism (Chisholm Trail, western themes)
20. Increase tourism/conventions (26)
21. Indian bingo
22. Land of Oz theme park
23. Local folks tourism (2)
24. Long term landfill solutions
25. Look for unique attractions
26. Magnet for international tourism
27. Make Coliseum a casino
28. More diversity in government/private jobs
29. More women bowlers
30. No slot machines
31. No state owned casinos
32. Pro basketball – no competing neighbor states
33. Promote brick building downtown
34. Promote Wichita’s quality of life
35. Quality visitor center
36. Regional poetry convention
37. Sell the attractions in Wichita
38. Support Cowtown/Exploration
39. Support existing Attractions
40. Theme parks (2)
41. Tourism – conventions, gambling, aviation museum
42. Tourism partnerships/private business
43. Tourist attractions for more revenue
44. Unique attraction not in neighboring state
45. Waste management
46. Yes, slot machines by private enterprises

D. Entrepreneurs and Small Business

1. Agriculture: strengthen
2. Attract investment capital
3. Banking rel. imp. & credit improvement
4. Business start-ups
5. City contracts: evenly distributed
6. Decreasing taxes for small business
7. Economic development vs. entrepreneurial
8. Entrepreneurship besides aircraft
9. Fair contract rewarding of small business
10. Invest in existing business
11. Meet needs of farmers (3)
12. Need better entrepreneur fostering environment (8)
13. Promote/develop better climate for small businesses (12)
14. Regional business incubators
15. Small business support small business friendly Chamber
16. Support for inner city business & individuals
17. Support home grown businesses (2)
18. We have to learn how to create our own jobs
19. Zoning – freedom for home businesses

E. Retail and Commercial Development

1. Attract retail businesses (large stable)
2. Better shopping – classic retail
3. Entertainment
4. Family dining
5. More shopping venues – more parking
6. Need food/similar items
7. Pedestrian mall (2)
8. Retail/commercial economic development
9. Shopping experiences
10. Stop more “big box” stores

V. Government

A. Tax Base

1. Remove sales tax from food (3)
2. Taxation/tax base –prioritizing

B. General

1. #1 efficient government in nation
2. Access to government leaders (2)
3. Accessible community involvement
4. Accountability for lottery $ (3)
5. Accountability of government officials
6. Ad voloreum tax – return to community
7. ADA accessible buildings/places
8. Allow community leaders to lead
9. Alternative tax structure
10. Amtrak into Wichita
11. An effective planning process that is accessible to all
12. Animal control (2)
13. Application process for boards & commissions
14. Attention on racial issues especially in government
15. Better communication with community advocates
16. Better performance projections for plans
17. Better public leadership in Topeka
18. Blurring what’s government function – commercial
19. Bring issues to public vote
20. Budgeting
21. Changes in laws where necessary
22. Character development – ethics
23. Citizen responsive government (3)
24. Citizens against government waste
25. City commissioners elected rather than appointed
26. City out of real-estate
27. Commitment from those with power to make vision a REALITY
28. Committee oversight of government spending
29. Community support a sales tax?
30. Concealed carry
31. Conf. verifiable voting system
32. Consumer friendly
33. Cronyism
34. Diverse leadership
35. Diversification of government
36. Diversify & utilize advisory boards
37. Do away with special taxes
38. Efficient use of resources – less waste (2)
39. Eliminate city manager form of government (3)
40. Eliminate good-old boys network
41. Eliminate special interest groups in community decision making
42. Eminent domain for public purposes only (4)
43. Empower people with vision
44. Encourage public/private sector leadership
45. End revolving door policy for elected
46. Enforcement of existing laws or changes
47. Evaluate mill levies
48. Evaluate taxation procedures
49. Fair tax system
50. Family value in local government
51. Finish projects in community (2)
52. Fix “I want it but don’t want to pay for it” attitude
53. Focus on assets & strengths
54. Freeze local sales tax & use payroll tax for economic development
55. Get money before beginning project
56. Getting government out of real estate
57. Go to all sales tax
58. Government accountability/reform (2)
59. Government do it all?
60. Government efficiency accountability czar
61. Government entities meet in evening (3)
62. Government leaders to be living examples
63. Help local officials & voters see big picture – benefits, instead of just short term costs.
64. Higher pay for elected officials (2)
65. Hold judges accountable
66. Hold officials accountable
67. Honest government
68. Honesty & simplicity in taxation, e.g.: level tax base
69. Implementation of studies/plan
70. Improve city planning process to involve area citizens – go to neighborhood & out of 8-5 hours
71. Improve communication/involvement between citizens and government (17)
72. Improve control over unregulated businesses
73. Improve our image (2)
74. Include small communities in planning/implementation
75. Increase effectiveness
76. Increase the integrity of government officials
77. Increased voter turnout/education (7)
78. Inform neighborhoods of city’s plans before they occur!
79. Judges picked by peers from pools of lawyers with term limits (4)
80. Land grabbing by cities
81. Leadership development (6)
82. Leadership in city government
83. Legal system
84. Legislators spend more time at home
85. Less city-business collusion
86. Less fragmented plans
87. Limited government – free market environment
88. Local people – not consultants (2)
89. Long range MAPC citizen input & commitment
90. Lower taxes to attract/retain young professionals & increase businesses (9)
91. Make public input more convenient
92. Minority/women
93. More citizen input for development i.e. put to a vote
94. More communication of officials & their results
95. More community meetings & public discussion
96. More equitable distribution of city services
97. More even tax structure
98. Need more information available on elected officials’ positions on issues
99. Networking with communities
100. Night meetings for: WCC, BOCC, & MAPC (MAPC on Channel 7)
101. No floating bonds
102. Open meetings & scheduling
103. People need more influence over budgeting
104. Planning process access to all
105. Political leadership (2)
106. Politicians to fund programs
107. Pre-voters ballots/sample ballots with candidate data
108. Pro labor agreement
109. Progressive politicians
110. Property tax review (2)
111. Protect property nights
112. Protect/preserve constitutional rights of citizens
113. Public policy – economic development
114. Quality government customer service (2)
115. Re-create democratic process (CPO’s) (4)
116. Redesign MAPC to be more representative of community
117. Reduce property tax for elderly
118. Referendum initiative as rule not exception
119. Regional collaboration (2)
120. Resource center required
121. Restore funding to city departments
122. Reverse poll tax
123. Review old laws before passing a new one
124. Revise political environment
125. Role model leadership in city government
126. Smaller government, lower taxes and less regulation
127. Spade/neuter pets
128. Statewide vote to make Wichita the state capital
129. Streamline city/county government
130. Stronger controls on illegal aliens (2)
131. Study for need of both city manager & mayor
132. Targeted taxes
133. Tax accountability (6)
134. Tax-free day for school purchases
135. Town hall meetings
136. Unified legislators
137. Unity
138. Update city codes to fit community
139. User friendly listings for government departments
140. Willingness to compare taxes with other communities
141. Younger government representatives

C. Working Together

1. 1st class Air Museum
2. Arena, Bigger – college sports
3. Better communication between agencies
4. Biggest resource – people
5. Center of USA
6. Change from city manager to mayor/council form of government
7. City county coordination/communication improved
8. City, county co-op (5)
9. City/county checks & balances
10. City/County consolidation (28)
11. Combine duplicate services in city & county – remove obstacles (3)
12. Commute time
13. Conservation of rural rights regarding annexation
14. Cooperation/unification area communities
15. Cost of living
16. Culture/Community/Arts
17. Do not consolidate city-county government (5)
18. Don’t – annexation of previous established neighborhoods (4)
19. Don’t get rid of Dorothy & Toto
20. Efficient citizens government
21. Eliminate duplications of public services
22. Elimination of waste
23. Examine structure of county government
24. Expand to include surrounding cities & counties
25. Find ways to unite the city of Wichita
26. Fund drainage projects
27. Fund stuff
28. Get along
29. Get rid of Dorothy & Toto
30. ICT MAS great place
31. Identity of cities: counties
32. Improve self-image
33. Improved co-op & consolidation between city, county, school district
34. Intra cities fighting
35. Intra government collaboration
36. Involve citizens in annexation planning to save tax dollars
37. Layering of governments
38. Marketing community involvement
39. Modernize IT support, etc.
40. Motor sports – existing facilities under funded
41. No fighting between cities
42. Partnerships (civic, private, etc.)
43. Provide services for annexed communities
44. Regional cable compliance commissions
45. Regional leadership & cooperation (4)
46. Remove community barriers (2)
47. Special events (Chisholm Trail)
48. Streamline city government
49. Theme park (western theme)
50. Toot cultural horn on cultural events
51. Unity of south central legislation delegation in Topeka (2)
52. Utilize what we have
53. Website (inclusive)

VI. Private Sector Leadership

1. Accessibility
2. Build social capital
3. Commitment from those with power to make vision a REALITY
4. Commitment to follow through with our STUDIES/VISIONS (5)
5. Communication publicity – good things going on
6. Community endowment program (2)
7. Community unification
8. Create an environment & attitude to best represent the interest of the community
9. Develop strategy to involve surrounding communities
10. Empower visionaries
11. Expanded volunteer center
12. Get youth involved and start younger
13. Healthcare endowment
14. How can I contribute to quality of life
15. Identify other cities by which to benchmark Wichita – adopt Baltimore Accountability model
16. Increase/promote community volunteerism (6)
17. Involve minority business & provide funding
18. Leadership
19. Make forums such as this ongoing
20. Make suggestions happen
21. Market Wichita Visioneering results
22. Marketing community involvement
23. Maximize private participation in visioning process – provide funding
24. More community involvement in volunteer programs
25. National reputation for quality education K-University
26. Open to new ideas, alternative strategies
27. Program for nonprofit startup
28. Programs to develop young adults, ages 20-30
29. Promote Visioneering to whole MSA
30. Promote volunteerism
31. Public-private collaboration
32. Quality of community leaders
33. Revamp metropolitan planning commission
34. Revise political negative environment
35. Solutions
36. Strong identity
37. Visioneering counties (not just Wichita) all around counties
38. Work on motivation!
39. Youth involvement on community/corporate boards (5)