Remember this?

Well, the Creative Fresno folks (that's me, I guess) have released a report card on how the city has moved forward with the recommendations.

From the Creative Fresno press release:

The CEC Report Card released today refocuses attention on the recommendations while evaluating the activities of the City
and the community to date.
In early 2006, at the request of Mayor Alan Autry, a group of energetic volunteers learned about and discussed the ability of Fresno to retain, attract, develop and support creative professionals. The group, the Creative Economy Council, developed a 65-page recipe for implementing community transformation. The recipe had four main ingredients or recommendations:
1. Mindset
2. Smart Growth
3. Urban Living
4. Quality of Place
Each of these four recommendations had very specific strategic goals that could be achieved by either the City or the community. After the release of the report, the Creative Economy Council was dissolved and the over-site of the report was taken on as a priority of Creative Fresno. In the newly released CEC Report Card each of the strategic goals under the four
key recommendations has been given standard academic grade outlining both the pros and cons of the goal’s progress.
Some of the strategic goals such as “Take the Lead: As the geographic center of California, the Fresno Metropolitan Area should work to provide leadership and support to the entire central Valley” received a grade of “A”. Strong involvement in the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley and Valley Blueprint Process coupled with several other actions dictated the high grade. Conversely, “Celebrate, Leverage and Capitalize on our Diversity: Ensure that Fresno is a place that celebrates its cultural and ethnic diversity” received a grade of “D.” While progress has been made on this goal, many community events still occur in a silo of cultural anonymity.

The “Making the Grass Greener” recommendations and the newly release CEC Report Card are both downloadable at the Creative Fresno Web site.