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� e following are excerpts � om the Mayor’s State of the City 2012 Speech given earlier this year.

In 1998, I gave my � rst State of the City address. Approxi-mately the same time of the year and I started thinking about what was it like back then. And I realized that as I drove down 10th Street the other day that there was no Subway. � ere was no Auto Zone. � ere was no Jack-in-the-Box.

� ere was no Carl’s Jr. � ere was no carwash. � ere were lots of vacant lots on 10th Street and an old car dealership. � ere was no Urban Renewal Agency. Old Je� erson still stood silent and gloomy as a memory of activities of the past. Police still worked out of an antiquated old car dealership down on Main Street. � ere was no new police station. � e old Sear’s building, was still empty. � ere was no plaza in front of the train depot and it stood vacant and silent, unused. � e treatment plant was at capacity, no room for new growth, no room for new busi-nesses.

We had an outdated and undersized collection system. � e majority of the subdivision to the south and to the east of the city did not exist. It was farm ground. Exit 29 was antiquated and dangerous. � ere was no Sky Ranch Business Park. � ere was no Gri� ths Park, no Pipe Dream Park, no Wolfe base-ball Field, no new Caldwell High School, no new elementary schools, no Freshman Academy, no Brother’s Park, no YMCA. Where Walmart stands and all the businesses associated with that was a � eld, an alfalfa � eld. � e population was ap-proximately 23,000. Crime was on the rise. I visited Caldwell students for the � rst time as mayor and asked them if they felt safe in the city of Caldwell and more than half of the students in each class raised their hand to say no, they did not. Indian Creek ran silently under the heart of the city. � ere was no Indian

Creek Festival, no Caldwell Night Light Parade, no Winter Wonderland, no Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council, and the list goes on and on. Together this community decided to change its course. A 15-year plan to address every issue from crime, to in-frastructure, to parks, to recreational opportunity was adopted. We decided to become a city of promise and we took that very seriously.

We wanted this community to be a good place for our fami-lies to live, work and play. We wanted our children to be able to work here want to live here and want to stay here. We wanted our children to be able to raise their hand in class and say they feel safe in school. I feel safe in Caldwell. Many things have changed during that period of time. All the things that we set out to accomplish, all these things that have changed, that list of things that I spoke about, those do exist now and they exist because we as a community cared. We became a city of promise. We made commitments to ourselves and we made commit-ments to our families that we would provide a brighter future for them than they enjoy today. Now, it takes individuals. Every year we acknowledge the e� orts of someone who has made a huge di� erence in this community, someone who has le� their � ngerprints on this community of promise. Someone who has helped us ful� ll those commitments and this year is no di� erent, the Lifetime Achievement Award recipients James and Nathelle Oates. We are a community that cares about family.

...� is year one of our biggest awards and the centerpiece for this year’s talk is Caldwell, a city of promise. We were selected for the second time as one of the 100 Best Communities in the Nation for Young People. � is is a tremendous compliment to the city of Caldwell and its citizens because the criteria to achieve such an award is not easily attained. In a nation where 7,000 students drop out of high school every day this year’s

best 100 winners will inspire communities across the nation to take action to solve the challenges facing their young people, said Marguerite W. Kondracke, American’s Promise Alliance President and CEO. � ese 100 outstanding communities refuse to let the economic and other challenges they face determine the fate of their youth. Instead, they are working together to ensure that all their young people can reach their full potential. A city of promise. We are the � rst city in the state of Idaho, it is my belief the � rst city and only city in the state of Idaho, to o� cially write and adopt a Youth Master Plan.

...To make sure that there was a plan that put in place a roadmap that helped us create a bright future for the youth of Caldwell. And as we went through this process, we had to qualify in three signi� cant areas. Number one we needed to be a safe community. Caldwell was recognized by COMPASS as the recipient of the 2011 Community Planning Association Leader-ship in Motion award. � e reason that we were recognized for this is the implementation of a new walking path that connects downtown to the YMCA.

... Our police department is so involved because you see deal-ing with crime is multifaceted. It takes prevention. It takes inter-vention and then of course, it takes enforcement. And our police department has done a wonderful job in being proactive in all three of those areas. School Resource o� cers within Caldwell and Vallivue School District associating with these students, becoming their friend, helping them to feel safe, helping them to have con� dence in their police department. � ose things are all very, very impactful and important to the lives our students. Our students are graduating.

Submitted by: City of CaldwellMayor Garret Nancolas

‰ To read more go to cityofcaldwell.com

State of the City 2012

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What’s Happening?

Events Coming Up...Cinco de MayoMay 19th-20th, 2012At Gri� ths Park Way Caldwell May 19, 2012 Time: 11:00am-7:00pmMay 20, 2012 Time: 12:00-6:00pm

Caldwell Night RodeoAugust 14-18, 2012At Simplot Stadium Time: 6:30-9:30am New this year Saturday August 18, 2012 Time: 8:00-10:00am

Buckaroo BazaarAugust 14-18, 2012In front of the Caldwell Night Rodeo parking lotTime: 5:00-11:00pm

Treasure Valley NightLight ParadeDecember 1st, 2012O’Connor Fieldhousedown Blaine to 5th Ave. Time: 6:00pm� eme: “Inside Santa’s Workshop”

Fight for Air Climb with the American Lung AssociationApril 28, 2012� e Boise Fight For Air Climb will be heldat the US Bank Plaza downtown Boise. Participants will be able to climb up to 38 � ightsin the US Bank Plaza. � e event will be startingat 8:00 am on April 28, 2012.Pricing: - December 31st: $25.00(plus $100.00 fundraising minimum)January 1- April 26th: $35.00(plus $100.00 fundraising minimum)

Canyon County FairComing in July Caldwell Night RodeoAugust 14-18121 North 22nd Ave.Caldwell, ID 83605Event Dates:Family Night - Tues - WedCNR Power of Pink - � ursPatriot Night - FriChampionship Finals - Sat

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We’d like to welcome the following businesses:

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‰ Idaho State Probation and Parole

‰ Heritage Charter School

We also celebrated the remodel project at West Valley Medical Center and the expansion at The College of Idaho.

The city of Caldwell is continuing to develop in both business and spirit.

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