Albany 2030 Kickoff Community Forums
In January 2010, Albany 2030 launched its public engagement process by holding Community Forums in three locations around the City. These forums included an introduction to the Albany 2030 process, and small group discussions on three topics: Albany's current strengths, Albany's current challenges, and participants' visions for the future of Albany in 2030. These forums helped the Albany 2030 team understand Albany today, and shape a vision for Albany's future.
The strengths, challenges, and vision elements were often similar among the three sessions, but unique viewpoints were also heard and new ideas captured (the full results are below).
Three forums were held:
- Thursday, January 28th, 6:30-9:30 PM, at Albany High School (over 180 participants)
- Friday, January 29th, 9:00 AM-Noon, at the North Albany YMCA (over 90 participants, including about 15 middle school students)
- Saturday, January 30th, 1:00-4:00, at Hackett Middle School (over 100 participants)
Results Available!
Click on the links below to access the polling results, lists of ideas and video clips from the Kickoff Forums!
- Combined Polling Results
- Entire list of ideas submitted by all tables.
- Video clips of all three sessions are also available at the Albany Community Television videoblog website.
Media Coverage
Coverage of the Forums and Albany 2030:
- CBS 6 Coverage (Post Forum)
- CBS 6 Coverage (Pre Forum)
- Metroland Coverage
- Metroland Looking Up Columns: January 21st , February 4th
- WAMC
- WGY Podcast with Doug Melnick, Director of Development and Planning, about Albany 2030
The forums are part of a larger public engagement process that will include a second round of Community Forums focusing on goals and actions, online input via the Citizen Journal, a Facebook page with opportunities for discussion, and Twitter and text messaging campaigns.
