The process of community knowledge starts with dialogue. The candidates brought forward their perspectives and ideas for the audience to consider. It is sometimes best to step back from any particular party or candidate and determine within the context of the discussion the main themes. Just off the top of one's head they might think cost, wages, business, energy, drug use, incarceration/guard recruitment, health care, and housing.
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One might look at the big items and consider what factors seem to influence all of them. Then you begin to ask questions. Would attracting new investment/business and reviewing all costs around core objectives help improve multiple factors? How might drug use, employment, mental health, and incarceration relate? Does new business investment improve the tax base? Are we using that tax monies wisely to solve as many problems as we can with the least amount of expended resources?
You are likely to come up with lots of questions and a number of solutions. Generally its beneficial to focus on those solutions that have the most supported evidence and most likely to positively influence outcomes. The candidates seem to have done a good job answering the questions. Such events are good because they provide a level of order for allowing different ideas and perspectives to come through.
A few topics of interest (Income, Energy, Healthcare and Crime)
-collaboration among of communities.
-outsourcing
-regulations
-public safety: community engagement, supporting part-time fire fighter volunteers.
-wages for employees
-mental health court
-airport expansion
-solar issues
-overcoming tough backgrounds
-housing
-higher pay for corrections officers. (Asa theoretical perspective improving economy/tax revenue can lead to more money that can be used solve societal problems like unemployment, drugs, crime, and rising costs. These are multifaceted problems so one must look at the problems systematically through the influence of multiple institutional factors. i.e. coordination of holistic solutions that improve output while reducingc costs. Don't Get Upset)
-Energy and feeding back into the systems from houses (There are benefits to dispersed and distributed energy production. Wind and solar can help in providing diverse inputs. This is currently in debate.)
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