Wednesday, February 26, 2020
February Newsletter
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What we've been up to...
THANK YOU to all the residents, business owners, and community stakeholders who brought your BIG IDEA(S) to a Transformation Team meeting or Design Charrette in January. Your input will form the backbone of our collective Thrive in the 05 Transformation Plan. Our Housing, Neighborhoods, and People & Education teams are hard at work compiling all of your ideas into a draft plan to be released in March! To be sure we captured what you told us, we'll present the draft plan at our upcoming Public Meeting on March 24 along with additional opportunities to submit feedback online or at other outreach events. Stay tuned!
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THRIVE in the 05 Public Meeting
Draft Transformation Plan Presentation
Tuesday, March 24 | 6:00-8:00PM
Location TBD
Come provide your input on the draft Thrive in the 05 Transformation Plan. RSVP at the link below to receive notice of the meeting location.
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Propose your Action Activity!
Thanks to funding from the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Thrive in the 05 currently has funding for Action Activities, which are physical neighborhood improvements that reflect community priorities and spur additional investment in the area. In early March, we will put out a call for you to submit project ideas. In the meantime, save the date for an information session:
Proposal Information Session (Brown Bag)
Thursday, March 17 | 12:00-2:00PM
Ward 3 Council Office | 1510 E Grant Rd
Join us for a Q&A session to discuss the Action Activities proposal guidelines and submission timeline. Connect with others that have the same idea and work together on a proposal.
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Tell us about your spaces and places!
Thrive in the 05 resident leaders are invited to participate in a community-wide effort to capture neighborhood stories about the spaces and places that are important to you. Neighborhood leaders will collaborate with University of Arizona students to develop an app for phones for collecting the stories of places that matter to them. Once identified, these will be compiled into a shared map of the physical and intangible elements that make your neighborhood unique.
The initial meeting of the working group is scheduled for 6:00 PM on February 26th in the Small Conference Room at El Banco (Pima Community Housing Center, 801 W. Congress Street). If you would like to be part of this project, plan to join us there. Contact Helen Erickson at hbe@email.arizona.edu to register as a neighborhood partner.
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Business Forum: Finding & Hiring Talent
Monday, March 23 | 6:00-7:30PM
Pima Community College Downtown Campus
1255 N Stone Ave | Amethyst Room (CC 180)
Details coming soon!
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Save the Date!
Spring Festival & Resource Fair
Saturday, April 25 | 9:00AM-12:00PM
Richey Resource Center | 2209 N 15th Ave
Contact us if you are interested in providing a resource table or helping to plan the event.
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Our Stories, Our Neighborhoods
To help keep Sugar Hill's history and culture alive, Sadie Shaw is collecting oral histories to pass down to others. Learn about this historically black neighborhood in residents' own words at the Sugar Hill Oral History Project. And check out this great story from KOLD that features Ada Redd Austin's beautiful singing voice. Watch the video.
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Resources You Can Use
- Nominate a Street Ambassador. The City of Tucson is preparing a city-wide transportation master plan known as Move Tucson that will create a mobility blueprint for the City’s future in a rapidly-changing world. The best way to improve a street is to get out there and get people talking about it. Street Ambassadors play a crucial role in demystifying the public process, gathering community concerns, and directly communicating those concerns to officials and decision-makers. Please help us recruit the best team by nominating people you think would be strong candidates for the Street Ambassador Program. Nominations Due by Sunday, March 1, 2020.
- Free Tax Prep. United Way of Southern Arizona’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides FREE, quality tax preparation from IRS-certified preparers to individuals and families earning up to $66,000 annually. Find a location near you.
- Discounts available for e-scooters and bike share. Tucson has a couple "shared mobility" options that offer low-income programs. Read more about the Scooters for All program and the Tugo for All pass.
- Part-Time Jobs Available with U.S. Census Bureau. The 2020 Census count is getting closer and the U.S. Census Bureau is hiring census takers, census field supervisors, recruiting assistants, clerks, and office operations supervisors. These are part-time positions with flexible hours.
- Parks and Recreation Needs Seasonal KIDCO Workers. The Tucson Parks and Recreation department is recruiting recreation workers to assist with summer KIDCO programs for children.
- Looking for a summer job? Pima County's Summer Youth Employment Program 2020 is now open for applications. Deadline to apply is March 6th.
- Arts for All is hiring! Check out the Arts for All employment page for information on open arts education and summer arts camp counselor positions.
Make Your Voice Heard!
- You can take the Census soon! Invitations to respond to the 2020 Census will be delivered between March 12-20. Once you receive that invitation, you can respond online, by phone, or by mail. Your response matters! Census results help determine how billions of dollars in federal funding flow into states and communities each year.
- Take the Move Tucson Survey. Your voice matters, take a quick 5 to 10 minute survey on how you use transportation. Your responses will be used to develop the mobility vision, values, and priorities for the City of Tucson Transportation Department's long-range master plan, Move Tucson. Take the Move Tucson survey to share what’s important to you:
English: tucsonaz.gov/MoveTucsonSurveyEN
Spanish: tucsonaz.gov/MoveTucsonSurveySP
Events
- Meet your legislators! The Amphi Community Outreach to Restore Education (CORE) is hosting a Meet Your Legislators event on Friday, Feb. 28 from 5:30-7:00pm at Amphi High School. Hear from your local state legislators about education-related proposals being considered in the current legislative session. Everyone is welcome!
Click here to submit upcoming events & resources to be included in future newsletters.
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Wait. What is THRIVE in the 05?
Building on over a decade of work on projects like the Oracle Area Revitalization Plan (OARP), The Oracle Project (TOP), and the Oracle Area Task Force, three current initiatives are teaming up to build community and invest resources in this area. Together, these projects are called THRIVE in the 05!
- Community-Based Crime Reduction is a comprehensive public safety initiative which seeks to work with the community to identify and address drivers of crime to help build sustainable communities of opportunity. Grant funded from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) through the Tucson based ASU School of Social Work.
- Choice Neighborhoods leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Grant funded from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the City of Tucson's Housing and Community Development Department (HCD).
- Pima Community College in partnership with City of Tucson's Economic Initiatives Office is working to connect local residents and businesses to job training, business incentives, and resources. This collaboration on economic and workforce development inclusion arose through the 2018 Daniel Rose Fellowship and Oracle Area Task Force.
This monthly newsletter will provide you with important updates on the projects, invitations to meetings, and opportunities to provide feedback and drive the change you want to see in your neighborhoods. Read more about the effort in the Arizona Daily Star.
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Community-Based Crime Reduction
Nadia Roubicek
Project Manager, ASU
School of Social Work
Nadia.Roubicek@asu.edu
520.884.5507 ext. 20609
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Choice Neighborhoods
Alison Miller
Lead Planner, City of Tucson
Housing & Community Development
Alison.Miller@tucsonaz.gov
520.837.5345
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Pima Community College
Teresa Noon
Program Manager, Community Outreach
Workforce Development
tmnoon@pima.edu
520.206.7031
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