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Southeast Quality of Life <br />Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan <br />NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUES <br />As a result of the comments and neighborhood perspectives offered at the <br />public forum, the consultant team prepared a limited list of issues to be <br />addressed within four categories. The consultant also posed an overall mission <br />for the strategic plan, and individual mission statements for each of the four <br />category areas: Land Use and Physical Environment, Neighborhood Security, <br />Capacity Building and Housing. Upon review and discussion with the SEQL <br />leadership and after public comment, the following Mission Statement was <br />accepted. <br />THE SOUTHEAST SIDE MISSION FOR SUCCESS. - <br />The Southeast Side will achieve the complete involvement of every <br />neighborhood resident and business in development of the strategic <br />action plan and the revitalization of the neighborhood to guarantee the <br />quality of life for themselves and each other. <br />The Consultant team prepared four work papers, one for each of the four issue <br />categories. These papers were designed to focus neighborhood attention on the <br />trends which led to existing conditions, and to suggest alternative approaches <br />toward addressing neighborhood goals. <br />CAPACITY BUILDING WORKING PAPER <br />Overview <br />Issues of capacity are complex. Most frequently these issues are masked by <br />their resulting behaviors --- high levels of criminal activity, single parent <br />households living in poverty, homes showing signs of neglect, low educational <br />attainment levels, and high levels of unemployment. <br />This section will discuss capacity as an individual key issue but also as it relates <br />to other issues discussed within this report. At the neighborhood meetings <br />capacity was discussed in three primary categories: individual, organizational, <br />and the structures which support capacity or the development of capacity. <br />54 <br />