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“Anything we do here will
have to begin in the community.” –
David
Dent, director of Fresno County’s Human Services System
“We need more leaders, but
they don’t have to be elected.” – Fresno County Supervisor Juan
Arambula
“We’re
talking about blading existing neighborhoods” to make room for new school
campuses, said Fresno Council President Henry
Perea. “We’re talking about well established neighborhoods
which have to go to the wayside for the better of the community.”
“There is no
single answer (in school construction) that isn’t extraordinarily arrogant
or extraordinarily ignorant.” – Dr.
Santiago Wood, Fresno Unified School District
Government
“must present numbers to us in a way we can understand it.” – Janet
Ryan, League of Women Voters
“The Los
Angeles Unified School District wanted to know which parklands the (city)
Recreation Department was looking at so they could site schools there. There
was no incentive to sit down and do a master plan for the community.” –
David Abel, Metropolitan Forum Project
“The ‘Crossfire’
model doesn’t inform the public and doesn’t allow them to
learn about complex issues.”
–
Steven Rosell.
President of Viewpoint Learning, explaining why dialogue is
superior to debate.
“It’s an age-old
concept to center schools around communities,” said Fresno City
Council President Henry Perea. “And now the real test of public
courage will be building schools. The local bond we passed-that
was a year ago. Now the balloon is rising, the fruit is turning
overripe. People are watching us and waiting to see what we’ll
do.”
“No one
said, ‘lets do mixed use in my neighborhood. But people began to
make the connections after sitting through a full hearing.”
–
Paul
Pierce, Fresno Planning Commission, on community
priorities identified by the ChoiceWorks dialogues.
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