NEOSCC Visits Cuyahoga and Ashtabula Counties for its latest Board Meetings

NEOSCC recently completed their fourth and fifth visit in the "12 Counties in 12 Months" initiative in Cuyahoga County (September) and Ashtabula County (October).

Cuyhoga County

The day's trip included a bus tour of the greater Cleveland area, lunch and a meeting at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. The visit concluded with a walking tour of Playhouse Square. 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio

You can recap the event by visiting our Flickr account. Just click on the photo above!

Ashtabula County

In Ashtabula County, the board meeting was held at the Spire Institute. Located in Geneva, Ohio, the Institute is one of the largest indoor, multi-sport, training and competition complexes in the world. The board also toured a variety of locations throughout Ashtabula during the morning.

The Spire Institute

The Star Beacon covered the Ashtabula event with an article by Carl E. Feaather:

Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium Meets with Commissioners (click for link)

Our Sustainable Communities peer grantee from Erie, Pennsylvania also sent representatives to take part in the tours and attend the board meeting.  Four members from the Destination Erie initiative attended the events throughout the day.  

Click to earn more about Destination Erie

Where are we going?

 Vibrant NEO 2040: A Vision & Framework for Our Future is an opportunity for Northeast Ohio communities to explore the region's long-term development patterns and to think together about what we want our region to be like in the future. The goal of Vibrant NEO 2040 is to create a shared framework that reflects the values, voices and vision of the public. Broad public participation at all stages is essential to building this framework and a legacy for generations to come.

Our work focuses on developing a framework, analysis and products integrating Economic Development, Environments, Housing and Communities, Connections (Transportation) and Quality Connected places.

Want to learn more?  Visit our initiative page. You can also download our current workplan.

  

Ashtabula County Creek Road Bridge

You are an expert on your piece of Northeast Ohio. No one else knows your experiences better than you. As part of the Vibrant NEO 2040 initiative, we want to tell stories about what makes Northeast Ohio such an extraordinary place to call home. Through these stories we can all have a better sense of what we need to create a more vibrant, resilient and sustainable present and future Northeast Ohio.

MyVibrantNEO wants you! In fact, it IS you!

What do you love about our region? What needs work? We started the MyVibrantNEO campaign to help connect Northeast Ohioans as part of a conversation about what makes each community great, and what could make each community better.

Cleveland Metroparks Toboggan Chute Cuyahoga County

How? 

Simple. Send us a photo. A story. A video. An essay, a personal testimony, a song, a poem, an interview, a collage - use whatever medium you choose. You can submit your piece online here.

What will we do with your submission?

First, we will display submissions on this page and on our social media pages. Next, several of the best submissions will be selected for future use in our ongoing public engagement campaign. Your work will be credited wherever we use it.

We want it all - anything that you think tells YOUR story of Northeast Ohio. Visit the myVibrantNEO page to contriibute.

Add to our growing list of Northeast Ohio Assets

Northeast Ohio is a diverse, vibrant and exciting region, with assets, attributes and points of pride in every community.  Those assets may be natural wonders, historic buildings, cultural monuments, arts institutions or an organization that connects diverse segments of the community.

Everyone who lives here has his or her own idea of Northeast Ohio's most important assets. NEOSCC has been working to catalog, map, and quantify the impact of Northeast Ohio's regional and local assets.  Because our assets make us what we are as a region, we want to better understand what they are, where they are, and what they mean to us.

And we need your help to do this.

Visit the Asset Map on VibrantNEO.org.

Explore it and then tell us what you think by clicking here.  We'd love to hear your own experiences with these assets and how they impact your experience of Northeast Ohio.

You can also use the interactive map to find assets and interesting places throughout the region.  The tool will automatically calculate your distance to any site on the list!

Other Events

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 
8:00 AM - 2:30 PM 
Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare

Across the state of Ohio, communities are utilizing shared services to improve their operations and reduce costs. The Shared Services Expo highlights successful shared services programs and provides practical advice to those interested in collaborative shared service projects. Our goal is to increase the number of effective shared service programs by providing specific details about the best practices behind real-world success stories.

Preregistration required due to limited capacity. Registration is $50, and includes a continental breakfast, box lunch and conference materials.

For more information