Kenosha Ideas Program

Nobody thinks about your neighborhood and your own experience living in Kenosha more than you do! It’s for that reason that our residents’ ideas and input are necessary to make sure the officials in the government of Kenosha is working for the people who live here AND to ensure Kenosha continues to grow in the right direction.

I spoke to a resident recently who described their efforts to try to get a streetlight fixed in our district. Instead of being able to simply call the city and having the issue be resolved, they had to make several attempts and do a lot of the leg work themself to finally get response from the city.

While I support residents doing work to improve their neighborhoods, I don’t believe that residents should be left with the impression that the city doesn’t care or even worse, that it will be too much effort to try to get the city to pay attention. Residents should not have the experience of providing feedback and not having any resolution from their input. Not every idea is a good idea, but all ideas are worth being heard. More ideas create more ideas, and there is where innovation comes from.

How would the Kenosha Ideas Program work?

(I’m open to feedback if you think there is a better way.)

1.       Residents would submit feedback through an online portal OR they could call and give their ideas. (Any idea that was submitted via phone would be entered into the portal.

2.       Ideas would be assessed for their feasibility and their impact to Kenosha. Sometimes we would have to reconnect with the person who submits the idea to get more clarification.

3.       If the idea is approved, the resident would be notified of the approval and given a shoutout via Kenosha social media page (everyone can opt out of a shout out if they chose not to be recognized publicly.)

4.       Residents would be able to track their idea submissions and see resolution.

…If you tell the city of Kenosha that there is a downed fire hydrant on your block, you shouldn’t have to wonder whether the city is going to do something and when it will be fixed. With a system like the Ideas Program, which encourages residents’ ideas and feedback, you can be assured that your voice has been heard, and whether approved or not, you can have resolution to your feedback plus a THANK YOU for taking the time to share your thoughts and ideas. (In the case of the downed fire hydrant, I would think that fixing it would be top priority and would be done ASAP.)