It has not been a quiet summer in Columbia.
The City Council is considering the city's budget, and the director of the Columbia Police Officers' Association found himself in the spotlight after authoring a controversial Facebook post. Many college students returned from summer break to discover a Columbia that changed while they were away.
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The Tribune invites readers to join an online forum at www.columbiatribune.com at 4 p.m. Thursday to discuss the challenges the community faces as it evolves as well as what can be done to improve things. Molly Housh Gordon, pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, and Jill Schlude, deputy chief of the Columbia Police Department, will both participate in the forum as invited guests.
During past forums, people have voiced concerns about downtown development. Some feel the new construction is making the area inaccessible, while others argue that small factions of people opposed to development have dominated the conversation and skewed public perception.
The last forum focused specifically on whether local leaders are listening to the public.
"The problem is NOT do our local elected leaders and the paid staff LISTEN," participant Sharon Kinden wrote during the forum. "The problem is they do NOT communicate to each other nor to the public. ... The problem is one must have a PLAN. Our city council is guilty of being RE-ACTIVE instead of PRO-ACTIVE. They spend most of their time cleaning up messes rather than presenting clearly defined programs aimed at achieving specific goals."
In the next forum, the Tribune will ask readers to talk about who should be responsible for the city's visioning process.
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