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State of the City Submitted by: City of Caldwell Mayor Garret Nancolas
The following are excerpts from the Mayor’s State of the City 2012 Speech given earlier this year. In 1998, I gave my first State of the City address. Approximately the same time of the year and I started thinking about what was it like back then. And I realized that as I drove down 10th Street the other day that there was no Subway. There was no Auto Zone. There was no Jack-in-the-Box. There was no Carl’s Jr. There was no carwash. There were lots of vacant lots on 10th Street and an old car dealership. There was no Urban Renewal Agency. Old Jefferson still stood silent and gloomy as a memory of activities of the past. Police still worked out of an antiquated old car dealership down on Main Street. There was no new police station. The old Sear’s building, was still empty. There was no plaza in front of the train depot and it stood vacant and silent, unused. The treatment plant was at capacity, no room for new growth, no room for new businesses. We had an outdated and undersized collection system. The majority of the subdivision to the south and to the east of the city did not exist. It was farm ground. Exit 29 was antiquated and dangerous. There was no Sky Ranch Business Park. There was no Griffiths Park, no Pipe Dream Park, no Wolfe baseball Field, no new Caldwell High School, no new elementary schools, no Freshman Academy, no Brother’s Park, no YMCA. Where Walmart stands and all the businesses associated with that was a field, an alfalfa field. The population was approximately 23,000. Crime was on the rise. I visited Caldwell students for the first time as mayor and asked them if they felt safe in the city of Caldwell and more than half of the students in each class raised their hand to say no, they did not. Indian Creek ran silently under the heart of the city. There was no Indian
Creek Festival, no Caldwell Night Light Parade, no Winter Wonderland, no Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, and the list goes on and on. Together this community decided to change its course. A 15-year plan to address every issue from crime, to infrastructure, to parks, to recreational opportunity was adopted. We decided to become a city of promise and we took that very seriously. We wanted this community to be a good place for our families to live, work and play. We wanted our children to be able to work here want to live here and want to stay here. We wanted our children to be able to raise their hand in class and say they feel safe in school. I feel safe in Caldwell. Many things have changed during that period of time. All the things that we set out to accomplish, all these things that have changed, that list of things that I spoke about, those do exist now and they exist because we as a community cared. We became a city of promise. We made commitments to ourselves and we made commitments to our families that we would provide a brighter future for them than they enjoy today. Now, it takes individuals. Every year we acknowledge the efforts of someone who has made a huge difference in this community, someone who has left their fingerprints on this community of promise. Someone who has helped us fulfill those commitments and this year is no different, the Lifetime Achievement Award recipients James and Nathelle Oates. We are a community that cares about family. ...This year one of our biggest awards and the centerpiece for this year’s talk is Caldwell, a city of promise. We were selected for the second time as one of the 100 Best Communities in the Nation for Young People. This is a tremendous compliment to the city of Caldwell and its citizens because the criteria to achieve such an award is not easily attained. In a nation where 7,000 students drop out of high school every day this year’s
2012 best 100 winners will inspire communities across the nation to take action to solve the challenges facing their young people, said Marguerite W. Kondracke, American’s Promise Alliance President and CEO. These 100 outstanding communities refuse to let the economic and other challenges they face determine the fate of their youth. Instead, they are working together to ensure that all their young people can reach their full potential. A city of promise. We are the first city in the state of Idaho, it is my belief the first city and only city in the state of Idaho, to officially write and adopt a Youth Master Plan. ...To make sure that there was a plan that put in place a roadmap that helped us create a bright future for the youth of Caldwell. And as we went through this process, we had to qualify in three significant areas. Number one we needed to be a safe community. Caldwell was recognized by COMPASS as the recipient of the 2011 Community Planning Association Leadership in Motion award. The reason that we were recognized for this is the implementation of a new walking path that connects downtown to the YMCA. ... Our police department is so involved because you see dealing with crime is multifaceted. It takes prevention. It takes intervention and then of course, it takes enforcement. And our police department has done a wonderful job in being proactive in all three of those areas. School Resource officers within Caldwell and Vallivue School District associating with these students, becoming their friend, helping them to feel safe, helping them to have confidence in their police department. Those things are all very, very impactful and important to the lives our students. Our students are graduating.
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