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Honorary Co-Chairs
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt
Town of Chapel Hill

Mayor Mark Chilton
Town of Carrboro

Mayor Tom Stevens
Town of Hillsborough

Commissioner Valerie Foushee
Orange County

Chancellor Holden Thorp
UNC Chapel Hill

Conference Planning Committee
Delores Bailey
Empowerment, Inc.

Dwight Bassett
Town of Chapel Hill

Anthony Carey
The Siena Hotel

Mariana Fiorentino
Terra Nova Global Properties

James Harris
Town of Carrboro

Mark McCurry
Town of Chapel Hill

Aaron Nelson
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce

Jim Norton
Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership

Laurie Paolicelli
Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau

Roger Stancil
Town of Chapel Hill

PREVIOUS TRIPS

In 1985 the Public Private Partnership (PPP), a group of engaged community leaders, organized our community’s first Inter-City Visit to Lexington, Kentucky. The creation of the PPP and the Inter-City Visit were spurred by a visit from Lexington’s community leadership in 1984 and Lexington’s invitation for a reciprocal visit.

Since that first trip to Lexington our community has traveled to six other college communities including Bloomington (University of Indiana), Boulder (University of Colorado), Princeton, New Jersey (Princeton University), Charlotte (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Champaign-Urbana (University of Illinois) and Ann Arbor (University of Michigan). Our most recent trip was to Madison, Wisconsin in 2006.

What We Learned on Previous Visits

Many of our community institutions and practices owe their beginnings to previous Inter-City Visits. Here are a few that participants of previous visits have identified:

• Downtown homeless outreach workers
• Culture shock
• The creation of the Chapel Hill Community Design Commission;
• The renovation of Memorial Hall;
• The plan to create the University’s Arts Common;
• The creation of a Chapel Hill downtown service district tax;
• The creation of the original Chapel Hill-Carrboro Downtown Commission (though it only operated as the Chapel Hill Downtown Commission);
• The creation of our community land trust; and
• The creation of the recently retired Chapel Hill Transit trolleys

Previous participants report that while they learned a lot about the communities they visited and brought back some good ideas, they also benefited greatly from the relationships and partnerships built among community leaders on the trip.

Visit www.Madison2006.com or www.annarbor2008.com for information on previous trips and to hear audio of the sessions.

PREVIOUS ATTENDEES

All members of our community are welcome and encouraged to participate.

For a list of participants on the Ann Arbor 2008 trip, click here.

For a list of participants on the Madison 2006 trip, click here.