Possible Options for Engaging Communities in Fort Ward Park

Possible Options for Engaging Communities in Fort Ward Park

DRAFT April 9, 2009

(These are not in priority order)

1.  Public input for the City meetings next week

a.  Budget hearing April 13, 2009

b.  City Council work session April 14, 2009

c.  City Council Candidates Debate April 16, 2009

2.  Need for public or private grant money for Adrienne Washington to assist with oral history interviews

3.  Consider VA Threatened Historic Landmark Status

4.  Public African American Remembrance Events and Signs

5.  Fort Ward Family Reunion

a.  Workshop with living residents and family members to share, listen, learn and teach

b.  Picnic with interpretive tours

6.  Civil War Sesquicentennial Plans for Fort Ward Park

a.  Fort Ward Forums

7.  Move the management of Fort Ward Park to the Office of Historic Alexandria to manage as a Historical Park