{"id":5876,"date":"2009-11-24T20:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T01:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T01:33:29","slug":"some-thoughts-about-danvilles-safety-in-our-community-input-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/24\/some-thoughts-about-danvilles-safety-in-our-community-input-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts about Danville&#8217;s &#8220;Safety in Our Community&#8221; input forum&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Danville Public School system <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/gdr\/news\/local\/danville_news\/article\/danville_forum_addresses_community_safety\/15800\/\" target=\"_blank\">held their quarterly &#8220;community input forum&#8221; on Monday night<\/a> and talked about &#8220;Safety In Our Community&#8221;. Let&#8217;s go over a few random thoughts about what happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was highly impressed at the turnout which was much higher than anybody expected.<\/li>\n<li>It would have been nice to have all of the School Board members present and introduced at the beginning of the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>I had no idea that the Danville Public School system holds quarterly &#8220;community input forums&#8221;, but that&#8217;s what School Board Chairman George Wilson said. He also said that people were asked to call in plans of attendance, but I never heard anything about that.<\/li>\n<li>I was also pleasantly surprised to see a majority of Danville City Council members present. Larry Campbell continues to amaze me with the way that he gets involved in community relations.<\/li>\n<li>More people need to know Derrick Mercer. He&#8217;s the pastor at the <span>Rhema Cultural Christian Center on Worsham St. and is the leader of the Danville Ministerial Alliance. Mercer is truly interested in the overall well-being of the community. He isn&#8217;t single-issue driven and listens to what everybody has to say. If more people acted in the manners of Mercer, things would be very different in a very short time-frame.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Don Notdvedt (<\/span><span>the head of Danville&#8217;s Boys and Girls Club) facilitated the forum very well. He was well prepared and handled the room with skill. When somebody tried to advance a personal agenda with a remark, he politely ran right over top of it and moved along.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>It seems that the only people that know about Danville&#8217;s Boys and Girls Club are people who support them financially or people who use their services. They need to get the word out more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Lots of ideas and problems went up on the board quickly, and that&#8217;s going to lead into my Final Thought.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final Thought: It&#8217;s great that the community got together and identified the problems that lead to violence, but it&#8217;s all going to be a wasted effort unless some solutions come out of this meeting. I&#8217;m giving Campbell &amp; Notdvedt the benefit of the doubt and believe that the next step (the &#8220;<span>steering committee&#8221;) will be formed within a month and results come out soon thereafter. 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