Wakeup Wake County

Promote clean and plentiful drinking water: educate the public and key decision-makers; hold community education forums on challenges to regional drinking water quality and water supply and "one water" solutions to protect water quality and plan for future water needs; monitor policy actions of city councils and County commission, and state; educate the public through maintaining educational website (www.wakeupwakecounty.org), sending email updates to 5000 citizens, engaging social and traditional media outreach.

Promote quality public education: educate the public and key decision- makers; hold community education forums; maintain educational websites (www.greatschoolsinwake.org and www.wakeupwakecounty.org); provide email updates to 5000 citizens; communicate with local and state officials about school operations and construction funding and school assignment policies; coordinate with education stakeholders; and communicate through news and online social media.

Promote effective land use and transportation, promote affordable housing: educate the public and decision-makers; speak to the public about multi- modal transportation issues, including transit, pedestrian and bicycle access, safe routes to schools, complete streets policies, need for affordable housing in a County challenged with rapid growth; maintain educational website www.wakeupwakecounty.org, provide email updates to 5000 citizens; meet with local and state officials about public transit,smart land use planning, and solutions to provide housing to people of all income levels; monitor policy actions of city councils, County commission and state, and state and local government; convene a coalition of transit stakeholders; and communicate about transportation, land use and housing issues through news and online social media.