Although the City of Fresno budget continues to shrink, we are working together with our Building Healthy Communities partners to ensure that the priorities of residents, especially from south Fresno neighborhoods, are included in the city priorities. Together with Building Healthy Communities staff from many partner agencies, Hmong leaders have been working to educate city council members about community priorities and the multiple planning processes that the city is going through. Last Wednesday (3/7/12), we visited Blong Xiong of District 1 and Oliver Baines of District 3.
BHC partners plan to visit each city council member’s office before the city council votes on a plan alternative on April 5th.