{"id":36708,"date":"2025-04-15T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=36708"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:22:29","slug":"commissioners-take-innovate-chester-county-to-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=36708","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners take ‘Innovate Chester County’ to next level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Chester County Commissioners Josh Maxwell, Marian Moskowitz and Eric Roe announced this week the start of projects resulting from recommendations by county citizens, generated through Innovate Chester County<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Innovate Chester County<\/em> first-phase projects will support children\u2019s mental health services, veteran resource communication, affordable housing, and the County\u2019s community transit service, Chesco Connect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough \u2018Innovate Chester County\u2019 we invited residents to explore new ways to tackle some of the complex social challenges we face in county government today,\u201d said Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Josh Maxwell.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we expected, some great ideas were generated by the teams of residents, and they have all been reviewed and prioritized,\u201d added Commissioner Maxwell.\u00a0 \u201cWe will now begin working on some of the recommendations that use existing resources, while researching other recommendations that require a greater amount of time, investment and partnerships with the private sector and nonprofits.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 100 individuals were selected to be part of Innovate Chester County\u2019s <\/em>work groups,<\/em> following a county-wide call to action for applications.\u00a0 The applications asked for professional qualifications and personal interests, as well as submitted ideas that addressed the noted county government challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Innovate Chester County<\/em> work groups started meeting late last year, and within a short timeframe, each team researched and prepared a selection of ideas to present to us, to our county administrative team, and to our steering committee,\u201d said Chester County Commissioner Marian Moskowitz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideas ranged from simple volunteer ambassador programs for Chesco Connect and Veterans Affairs, to more detailed recommendations that support a public education campaign on affordable housing, as well as collaboration on children\u2019s mental health services, and communication of our amazing local agricultural and farming products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chester County Commissioner Eric Roe noted, \u201cOne of the best things about Chester County is the interest that people have in taking time to make our community a better place for everyone.\u00a0 Asking residents to collaborate on finding ways to address the complex issues of today might not work elsewhere, but it does here.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank everyone who took the time to submit ideas and then meet to formulate those ideas into practical actions that we, in county government can take.\u00a0 We are looking forward to seeing the results of these Innovate Chester County<\/em> recommendations, not just in the coming months, but for a long time to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow the progress of Innovate Chester County<\/em> at www.chesco.org\/innovatechesco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chester County Commissioners Josh Maxwell, Marian Moskowitz and Eric Roe announced this week the start of projects resulting from recommendations by county citizens, generated through Innovate Chester County. The Innovate Chester County first-phase projects will support children\u2019s mental health services, veteran resource communication, affordable housing, and the County\u2019s community transit service, Chesco Connect. \u201cThrough \u2018Innovate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,3912,12723],"class_list":["post-36708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-commissioners","tag-featured","tag-innovate-chester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36709,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36708\/revisions\/36709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}