Annual membership meeting
12.09.10
TMT members will elect new officers and directors, approve TMT’s 2011 budget, and discuss future plans. Learn how you can get more engaged with TMT’s indicator improvement activities and help us recognize individuals “caught in the act” of improving our community’s quality of life.
Date: December 9, 2010
Time: 7:30-8:45 AM (networking continental breakfast starting at 7:15 AM)
Location: Washoe Education Association (WEA), 1890 Donald St., Reno 89502-5208
Directions: Corner of Pamela Dr., off E. Peckham, near Airway Dr.
Click here to download meeting files
TMT September 23rd candidate forum
09.23.10
Date: September 23, 2010
Time: 5:00-8:00 PM
Location: KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Directions: 1670 North Virginia Street (on the UNR campus)
Join TMT for a local candidate forum. Instead of our typical quarterly forum, meet local candidates and ask them directly about your quality of life issues living, working or raising a family in the Truckee Meadows.
The forum will consist of an informal reception for the public to mingle with candidates in KNPB’s front community room; concurrently candidates will have the opportunity to participate in a formal candidate discussion moderated by KNPB’s Michael Haggerty in the KNPB studio before a live audience, which will be taped for future broadcast on KNPB.
The 33 quality of life indicators, developed with extensive input from citizens throughout our community in 2006, will be driving the content of the discussion and questions at our candidate forum. The public will be posting questions for candidates around these indicators on TMT’s website later this summer. It’s the perfect way to learn more about local races before voting and being a part of the community’s voter turnout indicator.
Click here to learn more and submit candidate questions
monthly focus - economic wellbeing
05.24.07
May’s monthly focus is Economic Wellbeing. TMT encourages widespread participation of its membership and the general public at its Noon meeting on May 24th at the Somersett Club at Town Center. Learn more about the new Economic Wellbeing Indicators, community progress toward enhancing entrepreneurship in our region, and network with others interested in collaborative opportunities to improve the economic vitality in our region. David Archer, President, Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, will also talk about the regional challenges with venture capital funding and introduce a local winner in the Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition.
Cost: $12 for lunchRSVP: Please RSVP to Cherie Williams at by May 22 if you plan on attending.
Directions: The Somersett Club at Town Center is located at 7650 Town Square Lane in Reno. Exit I-80 at Robb Drive. Turn left onto Sharlands at the stop light. Sharlands crosses MaeAnne and becomes Somersett Parkway. Go through 2 roundabouts and make a left onto Town Square Way. Click here for map
children’s health care
04.15.07
Point / counterpoint—proposed: Congress should increase the funding for a health insurance program for low-income children.
child abuse referrals
04.07.07
Washoe County social services reported a 13% increase in child abuse and neglect referrals between 2002 and 2006, due to area growth, meth abuse, and a growing awareness about the issue. Read more, including 10 prevention tips: Reports of child abuse increase
best places for businesses and careers
04.05.07
Reno metro area ranks 118 out of 200 in the 2007 Forbes list of best places for business and careers. The area ranked 22 for job growth but 171 for cost of living based upon housing, utilities, transportation and other expenditures. Culture and leisure ranked 95 based upon museums, theaters, golf courses, sports teams and other activities but 113 for the share of the population over age 25 with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Read more about the rankings: best places for business and careers
Reno-Sparks growth
04.05.07
Reno falls to 98th on list of fastest growing ... And the growth that is happening just might bring different demographics--the young and the Baby Boomers--to the area: Growth for the Reno-Sparks area takes dive, according to Census Bureau