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Pre-Community Workshop Interviews
A set of pre-community workshop interviews were conducted by telephone and in-person. The interviews were used to discuss the overall direction and goals of the Legacy Initiative and to identify 1) the interviewees’ individual and collective goals for the legacy initiative, 2) major themes that legacy projects for the community should represent, 3) potential legacy projects, and 4) key organizations and individuals who should be involved in the legacy initiative.
Organizing Steering Committee Meeting
The Project Steering Committee constituted the “senior management” team for the initiative. The committee’s August 1, 2007, initial organizing meeting was convened by Jim Newberry, Mayor of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Participants discussed project goals and objectives, established an initial set of guiding principles and criteria to be used in identifying legacy projects, and reviewed the Workshop One peer review panelist qualifications.
Call for Legacy Projects: Creating a Communitywide Dialogue
In August of 2007, Knight Foundation, in partnership with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, issued a call for all citizens to submit ideas for legacy projects that would enhance Lexington far beyond the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG). The call for legacy project ideas, which officially kicked-off the WEG Legacy Initiative, started with a well-publicized public announcement event, followed by numerous print and broadcast stories to get the word out to a wide range of citizens who were given a variety of ways to submit ideas for legacy projects. Suggestions could be submitted by email, through several websites, or dropped off in person at numerous sites. Some 90 projects were submitted from all sectors of the community. |
