There's a big focus on education and workforce development. If you've got the workforce then you can hopefully grow the economy through more business and more jobs.

We want to just tell the community what stage we are in this process.

As the surveys have indicated, we need to become more regional in our thinking, bringing in other communities and even some cooperation with the other two states neighboring us.

I don't think parents address the whole child. I think they fragment and they focus on education, and they neglect the social emotional side of child rearing.

For a lot of parents, it just seems like there are other concerns. They focus on education and staying out of trouble and by doing that they somehow believe that [financial security] will take care of itself.

Education is our main focus. I live on land where the Cherokees lived. For me, this is a little bit about guilt and a lot about my love of history.