Plan Highlights:
The Western Reserve Plan will focus on these 12 key areas:
- Metropolitan Government:
Implementing a practical strategy for creating a functioning, county-wide metropolitan government. - Entrepreneurship and Job Growth:
Establishing Greater Cleveland as a center of entrepreneurship and job growth. - Downtown Cleveland:
Designing a place-based development strategy which recognizes the centrality of downtown Cleveland to the region as a whole. - Human Service Needs:
Aligning and coordinating both public and private resources around our most pressing human service needs. - Education:
Identifying education, from early childhood forward, as the central factor in individual and community success. - Health and Wellness:
Embracing a health and wellness culture which mirrors the excellence of our major medical institutions. - Economic Inclusion:
Incorporating economic inclusion as a guiding principle in our economic development strategy. - International City/Younger Generations:
Branding our metropolitan area as an international city which harnesses the energy of our younger generations. - Foreclosure Crisis:
Adopting a collaborative approach to the foreclosure crisis- from prevention to restoration. - Veterans:
Honoring the service of our veterans by giving them priority in hiring, training and education. - Public Safety:
Protecting our county by leading a county-wide public safety initiative. - Good Government:
Creating a culture within county government which implements nationally recognized good government practices and innovations.