{"id":11338,"date":"2014-11-23T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T23:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:15:14","slug":"breakdown-danville-united-meeting-11202014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/23\/breakdown-danville-united-meeting-11202014\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Danville United Meeting (11\/20\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wrong and I have changed my mind. Let&#8217;s do a BreakDown <a title=\"Danville United \u2013 LIVE! (11\/20\/2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/20\/danville-united-live-11202014\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Thursday night&#8217;s Danville United meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know, you&#8217;re shocked at hearing me say &#8220;I was wrong&#8221;. I can&#8217;t blame you for that. Let&#8217;s bring on a Big Board.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let&#8217;s get to the big point right now. The last Danville United meeting I went to was 8 months ago because they&#8217;re cross-scheduled with Danville School Board meetings. Lawrence Campbell envisioned Danville United to focus on race relations issue and to have regulatory authority. The regulatory authority idea was quickly shot down and the race relations part has now transitioned into a community relations forum. Eight months ago, the city talked about Danville&#8217;s blight problem and the coming programs to help eliminate it. That was good, however the audience had a bunch of people in it that vocally objected to the non-race related content. Only one of those people were at Thursday night&#8217;s meeting. I&#8217;m hoping that trend continues. Based on this meeting&#8217;s content and the citizen&#8217;s turnout, I now believe that the Danville United has a promising future. I encourage all citizens to come to the next meeting and learn.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Johnson &amp; John Carroll are excellent leaders of the group. They know how to host a meeting and keep it moving,<\/li>\n<li>I was a little disappointed at the 40+ person turnout at first, but then I realized that all of the attendees were people who cared and wanted to make a difference. We can build on that of people when we get the word out. There was only one &#8220;agitator&#8221; in the group and he was shut down quite efficiently in the after-meeting discussion.<\/li>\n<li>I learned there&#8217;s lots of programs that are out there to help with youth and parenting, but they&#8217;re horribly underutilized.<\/li>\n<li>Lillie Jones is amazing. She runs the Comprehensive Services Act program at Danville Social Services and she does it perfectly. She stood up and said &#8220;The people who need this help aren\u2019t here tonight. The people who need these services aren\u2019t going to ask for these services.&#8221; She&#8217;s just as good &#8220;on the streets&#8221; as she is in the business office.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drfonline.org\/reports.php\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the link to the Danville Regional Foundation&#8217;s Regional Report Card that was discussed in the meeting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of the meeting, Walter Hargraves asked about the possible sale of the Sutherlin Mansion. It was clearly off-topic, so Ron Johnson said we could discuss it after the meeting. Hargraves got a little agitated, but City Manager Joe King said he&#8217;d be glad to talk about it to anybody that wanted to stay. So that happened. Hargraves went into a rant about Danville&#8217;s race relations that included Trayvon Martin, so I immediately tuned him out as an agitator. Surprisingly, another citizen came over and challenged Hargraves politely. His rational thoughts and talking shut Hargraves down and that was the end of that. Hargraves was one of the ones who questioned the topic at the meeting back in March.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Mount Vernon United Methodist Church was a gracious host. They have a beautiful building that&#8217;s overlooked by so many people who drive by there everyday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the BreakDown. I now strongly support Danville United as they have steered to the center and the people on the fringes aren&#8217;t trying to make this group into what it shouldn&#8217;t be. I hope to see you at the next meeting in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wrong and I have changed my mind. 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