July 17, 2000
New Conference of Mayors President Boise Mayor
H. Brent Coles is developing a work-plan designed to ensure that mayors
are active participants in establishing the policy priorities of the next
President of the United States and his administration.
As he announced in his inaugural address in
Seattle at the 68th Annual Conference of Mayors, Mayor Coles will focus
his work as President of the Conference on four major areas: 1) The well
being of the family; 2) The livability of communities and neighborhoods in
which we live and work; 3) Educating the workforce of the new millennium;
and 4) Building infrastructure to connect metro economies. As Mayor Coles
stated, "by working on these issues, we will be able to strengthen and
maintain the growth of The New American City."
Within these four overarching areas, Mayor
Coles has identified 10 specific priorities:
- Drug Control/Public Safety
- Human Dignity/Diversity
- School Programs Supporting
Families
- Smart Growth (Housing, Transportation,
Environment, Brownfields)
- Smart Cities/Technology
Infrastructure/Digital Divide
- Parks and Open Space
- Technology in Schools
- Workforce Technology Training
- Rail System Restoration
- Airport Enhancements
As Coles said in Seattle, the New Agenda for
America's Cities developed by Past President Denver Mayor Wellington E.
Webb "is a road map that will define the course of this organization for
many years to come."
Coles added that, "not everything in that
agenda can be accomplished in one year. My goal is to drill down on the
agenda and develop detailed transition policies for working with the next
Administration on priorities which can be accomplished in the immediate
future, and to focus on the best practices of mayors and cities which can
be national models for action." A full copy of Mayor Coles' speech and
highlights of his agenda are available at usmayors.org.
To help develop and define the transition
policies, Mayor Coles has called a special meeting for the chairs and
members of the 10 transition policy teams to be held at the Chicago
Marriott O'Hare Hotel on Friday, July 21, with a reception the evening
before on July 20 at the hotel.
At the Friday meeting, the 10 teams will work
individually in the morning, and reports will be made to the entire group
in the afternoon with the opportunity for all mayors to comment on any of
the 10 transition areas.
As Mayor Coles stated in the letter he sent to
his team chairs and members, "this is a critical meeting as we work to
further establish our priorities for the next administration and the
transition process which will formally begin on November 8, but has
already informally begun in both campaigns."
The work of the Chicago meeting will then be
taken into the Fall Leadership Meeting in Boise/Sun Valley on September
13-17 to which the policy advisors for both Vice President Gore and
Governor Bush have been invited.
Transition Teams
Drug Control/Public Safety
Co-Chairs
Jeff Griffin, Mayor of
Reno
Scott L. King, Mayor of Gary
Members
Lee P. Brown, Mayor of Houston
Joseph P. Ganim, Mayor of
Bridgeport
Preston
A. Daniels, Mayor of Des Moines
Arlene J. Mulder, Mayor of Arlington
Heights
Rita L.
Mullins, Mayor of Palatine
Martin O'Malley, Mayor of Baltimore
Bart Peterson, Mayor of
Indianapolis
Carlos
Moises Ramirez, Mayor of El Paso
Graham A. Richard, Mayor of Fort Wayne
Human
Dignity/Diversity
Co-Chairs
Bob Knight, Mayor of
Wichita
Meyera Oberndorf, Mayor of Virginia
Beach
Members
Sara B. Bost, Mayor of
Irvington
Peter A.
Clavelle, Mayor of Burlington
Paul Fraim, Mayor of Norfolk
James A. Garner, Mayor of
Hempstead
Alex
Fekete, Mayor of Pembroke Pines
Catherine J. Melchert, Mayor of Bartlett
(IL)
Joseph P.
Riley, Jr., Mayor of Charleston
School Programs Supporting
Families
Co-Chairs
Rosemary Corbin, Mayor of Richmond
(CA)
David W. Moore, Mayor of Beaumont
Members
Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of
Minneapolis
Dannel
P. Malloy, Mayor of Stamford
Bill Purcell, Mayor of Nashville
James Torrey, Mayor of
Eugene
Judith
Valles, Mayor of San Bernardino
Marilyn Young, Mayor of Yuma
Smart Growth
(Housing, Transportation, Environment, Brownfields)
Co-Chairs
Patrick McCrory, Mayor of
Charlotte
M. Susan
Savage, Mayor of Tulsa
Members
John Antaramian, Mayor of Kenosha
Dennis W. Archer, Mayor of
Detroit
Kenneth
Barr, Mayor of Ft. Worth
J. Christian Bollwage, Mayor of
Elizabeth
Charles E.
Box, Mayor of Rockford
Willie L. Brown, Jr., Mayor of San Francisco
Elizabeth G.
Flores, Mayor of Laredo
Jon Kinsey, Mayor of Chattanooga
William A. Johnson, Jr., Mayor of
Rochester
Patrick J.
McManus, Mayor of Lynn
Mark W. Schwiebert, Mayor of Rock Island
(IL)
Smart
Cities/Technology Infrastructure/Digital Divide
Co-Chairs
Jerry Brown, Mayor of
Oakland
Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of the District of
Columbia
Members
Hal J. Daub, Mayor of Omaha
John Fernandez, Mayor of
Bloomington
Michael
A. Guido, Mayor of Dearborn
Sharpe James, Mayor of Newark (NJ)
Ronald Kirk, Mayor of
Dallas
Vicki
Reynolds, Mayor of Beverly Hills
Bob Walkup, Mayor of Tucson
Parks and Open Space
Co-Chairs
Victor Ashe, Mayor of Knoxville
Marc H. Morial, Mayor of New
Orleans
Members
James Brainard, Carmel (IN)
Lee R. Clancey, Mayor of Cedar
Rapids
C. Jack
Ellis, Mayor of Macon
Elizabeth B. Kautz, Burnsville (MN)
Joseph A. Griffo, Mayor of
Rome
Gus Morrison,
Mayor of Fremont (CA)
David W. Smith, Mayor of Newark
(CA)
Technology in Schools
Co-Chairs
Shirley Dean, Mayor of Berkeley
Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston
Members
Susan J.M. Bauman, Mayor of
Madison
Norman
Coleman, Mayor of St. Paul
Douglas Palmer, Mayor of Trenton
Workforce Technology
Training
Co-Chairs
Vincent A. Cianci, Jr., Mayor of
Providence
Beverly O'Neill, Mayor of Long Beach
Members
Floyd Adams, Mayor of Savannah
Jim Gatzke, Mayor of New
Berlin
Clarence
Harmon, Mayor of St. Louis
Donald L. Plusquellic, Mayor of
Akron
Rail System Restoration
Co-Chairs
Patrick Henry Hays, Mayor of North
Little Rock
John Robert Smith, Mayor of Meridian
Members
Ross 'Rocky' Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake
City
Ralph
Appezzato, Mayor of Alameda
Michael B. Coleman, Mayor of Columbus
Brian Ebersole, Mayor of
Tacoma
Kirk Watson,
Mayor of Austin
Wellington E. Webb, Mayor of Denver
Airport
Enhancements
Co-Chairs
Bill Campbell, Mayor of
Atlanta
Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago
Members
Ken Gnadt, Mayor of Grand Island
(NE)
Tom J. Murphy,
Mayor of Pittsburgh
Alexander Penelas, Mayor of Miami-Dade
John Street, Mayor of Philadelphia
Michael R. Turner, Mayor of Dayton
Don Wesely, Mayor of Lincoln
Shelia Young, Mayor of San
Leandro
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