Community Building Initiative Progress in achieving our benchmark outcomes is dependent on our ability to leverage community, individual and family resources. A healthy community has good schools, well maintained physical infrastructure, affordable housing, social supports and opportunities for citizen involvement. We have recently started working on a Community Building Initiative with the City of Portland and other partners. It is intended to be a comprehensive way of creating healthy communities and strong families by recognizing the need to connect our investments in human capital, physical capital and social capital at the neighborhood and community level. Human capital investments are the things that we do to help people maximize their strengths and overcome problems through our social services and schools.
Physical capital includes housing and other civic facilities.
Social capital is about the relationships we have with each other and the ways we work together in congregations, community based organizations and other volunteer efforts. Combining these efforts at the local level has the potential of increased satisfaction with government, better service and stronger more resilient communities. I want to thank the department directors and department staff for their cooperation in developing this budget. The stress of Measure 47 could have resulted in internal competition and distrust. It did not.