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U.S. Conference of Mayors President Miami Mayor Manny Diaz Announces Mayors '08 Action Forums; Five Cities - Five Priorities - Ninety Days
First Forum to be held in Philadelphia, August 5
MIAMI, July 17 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Today U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, along with USCM Executive Director and CEO Tom Cochran, announced the Mayors '08 Action Forums, a national tour to five major American cities, where the nation's mayors will forge an action agenda for cities and metropolitan areas. These recommendations will be presented to the next President of the United States during the critical first 100 days of the new administration.
The Mayors' Action Forums, which will be held in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Miami between August and October, will focus on five areas that mayors believe are in need of significant federal investment and are at the center of the Mayors' 10 Point Plan: crime, poverty, arts, infrastructure, and environment.
Last month at the Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting held in Miami, Mayor Diaz, the newly-elected President of the mayors' organization, stated that Washington has ignored the role, value and promise of the nation's cities and metro areas - which is where 85% of American people live.
"Hard working Americans send their tax dollars to Washington and now it's time for Washington to return those resources to our nation's families and cities," Diaz said. "National problems demand national investments," he continued. Diaz chose forum cities in every region of the country to further emphasize the national scope of inaction coming from Washington and the immediate need to help suffering Americans.
The first stop on this national tour will be in Philadelphia on August 5-6 with a focus on crime and public safety. This forum will bring together the nation's mayors and police chiefs to work on a new agenda to advance community policing, provide police officers with new innovations and technology, and create a plan that will involve city residents in reducing neighborhood violence and street crime.
"Philadelphia is honored to be the first of several U.S. Conference of Mayors issue forums," said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. "We know the crime and public safety forum to be held in Philadelphia with mayors and police chiefs, as well as all the following forums throughout the nation, will be a refreshing first step in bringing to light the shared issues and challenges facing Americas urban centers and working towards solutions."
The forum in Philadelphia will be followed by forums on poverty in Los Angeles, infrastructure in New York, arts in Chicago, and environment in Miami on October 4th. Senior advisors with Senator Obama's and Senator McCain's campaigns will be invited to attend each of the forums.
"Mayors wholly support the vision described by their President Manny Diaz and are committed to the cities' agenda and his leadership as he wakes up America and demands that national problems demand national investments," said Tom Cochran, Executive Director and CEO of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "The full resources, power, force and political action of the nation's premiere bipartisan lobbying organization of the America's cities and metropolitan areas are committed to the accomplishment of Mayor Diaz's vision."
The U.S. Conference of Mayors
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,139 such cities in the country today, each represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the Mayor. For additional information, visit www.usmayors.org.
SOURCE U.S. Conference of Mayors
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