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Leadership Asheville 22

Economic Development Team:
The Economic Development Team of Leadership Asheville 22 is partnering with Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College to deliver an event for people interested in starting their own business. Called Spring into Business, and set for March 25 from 4:00-7:00pm, this self directed forum will give attendees access to information from a number of sources helpful for new or prospective business owners. Sources include bankers, attorneys, accountants, city officials and many others.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

Jason Chambers
Joan Farrell
Charlene Galvin
Capi Key
Elizabeth Pou
Max Queen
Bradley Taylor

Education Service Team Project
The Education Team developed a partnership of Buncombe County’s Owen Middle School, City of Asheville Parks and Recreation and Warren Wilson College to provide a service learning experience for 6th grade at-risk boys. The end result of the program was that each student learned, through active experiences and community service, about his individual self and the role he plays in a group with a common goal. This partnership will continue annually. Next year it will serve a 6th grade class of at-risk girls.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

Tony Baldwin
Jennifer Fuddy
Eric Grant
Jim Orr
Rosie Palmisano
Jody Whitehurst

Government Team:
The purpose of this team’s project is to increase voter awareness as well as the number of registering individuals in Buncombe County. A brochure is to be completed with voting locations, helpful websites and numbers, and basic information on who is eligible to register to vote in North Carolina. Once compiled, this information will be distributed to the Board of Elections, DMV, libraries, all leadership participants, grocery stores, area high schools, and restaurants. For greater effectiveness, the brochure will be printed in three languages: Spanish, Russian, and English.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

Ben Bryson
Carla Hughson-Schmitt
Amy Jackson
Erica Muse
Bob Washel
Carolyn Worthington

Infrastructure Team:
The LA 22 Infrastructure Team selected an ADA ramp and sidewalk inventory project. The goals this team is aiming to reach are to update and expand the current ADA ramp inventory, to develop a reporting format, and walk and bike selected area and record non-compliances of ramps and sidewalks, to identify areas of interest (high density, walking population, bike paths, parks, bus stops, etc.), to compile a report for submission to Public Works, to involve and train neighborhood associations that might be interested in conducting similar inventories in their own neighborhoods.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

David Bennert
Carole Donnelly
Jaime Huffman
Wayne Hyman
Bob LeClare
Bob Wagner
Junior Woody

Private Sector Team:
The Leadership Asheville 22 Private Sector Team has designed a community project entitled “UPLIFT” which is United Partners in Learning, Investing for Tomorrow Project. Project UPLIFT is a grassroots collaboration between the private sector, city/council school systems, principals, faculty, parents and children. The partners are united to help our students succeed and become active members of the community and workforce. The mission of Project UPLIFT is to facilitate partnerships between the private sector and local schools to provide basic school supplies to students.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

Charlene Boettcher
Marilyn Carter
Kathleen McNeal
Fred Plimpton
Teresa Proffitt
Julie Spalla

Quality of Life Team:
The Quality of Life Service Team is proposing the first Annual Asheville Alternative Spring Break for approximately 20-25 middle school students (preferable 6th graders) that attend the Asheville Middle School and reside in the predominately low-income neighborhood of the W.C. Reid Center for Creative Arts. This weeklong project, held April 5-9, 2004, will expose disadvantaged youth to a variety of resources and areas of interest in our community such as nature/environment, education, health care, visual and performing arts, business, and the media in a fun, exciting, and interactive way.
Leadership Asheville Participants on this team:

Missy Corn
Judy Cuellar
Meg Dutnell
David Mitchell
Mary Anne Paul
Robin Payne
Fred West