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Quality of Life Please note that links that are outside of Nashville.gov will open in a new internet browser window. MTA Recognized as One of the Most-Improved Systems (Metropolitan
Transit Authority) Go to the Metropolitan Transit Authority web site Public Works implements Traffic Management program (Public
Works) Go to the Metro Neighborhood Traffic Management Program web site Progress
for Bike Routes (Public Works) Go to the Comprehensive Sidewalk Program web site Pavement
Management Program to examine every public Road (Public
Works) The Pavement Management Program is the first step of the department’s Long Range Strategic Paving and Alley Maintenance Plan. The long-range plan is scheduled to be complete in September 2004, at which point a 5-year and 12-year paving program will have been developed. Go to the Public Works web site Friday Openings (Nashville Public Library) Go to the Nashville Public Library web site Dedication of Civil Rights Room at the Main Library
(Nashville Public Library) Library system increased visits and circulation of materials to an all-time high (Nashville Public Library)
Library
makes technology advances (Nashville Public Library)
Library
plays leadership role in its services to children, youth and families
(Nashville Public Library) Plunge in Syphilis rate continues (Metro
Public Health Department) Flu vaccine provided to record numbers (Metro
Public Health Department) Access to Health Care increasing (Metro
Public Health Department) School Health Nurses complete 155,000 procedures (Metro
Public Health Department) View more information about the School Nurses program Success By 6 completes screenings for more than 2,600 children
(Metro Public Health Department) View more information about the Success By 6 program Children’s Special Services make nearly 700 home visits
(Metro Public Health Department) View more information about Children's Special Services Title One school children receive dental services (Metro
Public Health Department) Healthy Start provides education for families (Metro
Public Health Department) View more information about the Health Start program Food Inspection Division conduct nearly 13,000 inspections
(Metro Public Health Department) View more information about Food Protection Services Pest Management Services controls West Nile (Metro
Public Health Department) View more information about mosquito control Tobacco
Use Decreases (Metro Public Health Department) Home
Visits Increase (Metro Public Health Department) View more information about the HUG program Animal
Control Works to Reduce Strays (Metro Public Health
Department) Metro
Ensures Healthy Swimming Pools(Metro Public Health
Department) View more information about Animal Services in the Metro Public Health Department Nashville is still the “Friendliest City”
(Mayor’s Office) HOPE
program gives hope for affordable housing (Mayor’s
Office) Go to the Homeownership Preservation Effort web site Section
8 to Homeownership (Mayor’s Office) Go to the Office of Affordable Housing web site Nonprofit
Predevelopment Loan Fund being developed (Mayor’s
Office) First
Mayor’s Affordable Housing Summit (Mayor’s
Office) After adding more than 11,000 units to the city’s affordable housing stock from 1999 to 2002, Mayor Purcell committed to provide a Permanent Mortgage Pool for multifamily needs at the housing summit. Payment
in Lieu of Taxes Legislation Developed (Mayor’s
Office) Second
Annual Mayor’s Summit on Children and Youth (Mayor’s
Office) The summit, held in March 2004, was the second organized by the Mayor's Office of Children and Youth. This year Mayor Purcell announced plans to expand on the Bright Spaces program, one of the successes of the first summit, by providing developmentally appropriate spaces for children, in the Nashville's domestic violence shelters and residential substance abuse recovery programs. Following last year's summit, Bright Spaces were created in each of the cities homeless shelters that serve families. Go to the Office of Children and Youth web site Fifth
Annual Mayor’s Youth Summit (Mayor’s
Office)
Mayor's
Youth Council (Mayor’s Office) Go to the Mayor's Youth Council web site Programs Boost Grades & Test Scores (Community
Education) Employees
participate to feed the hungry (Human Resources) Metro
Employees Build a Home (Human Resources) Metro
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The Metropolitan Transit Authority has been recognized as one of the 10
most-improved transit systems in the nation according to an annual survey
of public transit systems conducted by the editorial staff of Metro Magazine.
In the May 2003 edition of the transportation publication, MTA’s
CEO Paul Ballard received high marks for major improvements within the
agency by using a common sense approach: “good old-fashioned communication.”
Metro Nashville Public Works (MNPW) seeks to reduce speeding automobile
traffic in residential areas and promote neighborhood livability with
its new Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. Under this program, MNPW
staff works with neighborhoods to identify the types and severity of traffic
problems. Traffic management seeks to modify the behavior of drivers to
what is appropriate for residential streets, beginning with education
and enforcement that focuses on driver awareness. Speed humps or other
physical or operational changes to streets are considered only if less
intrusive techniques fail to provide relief. To be effective, traffic
management techniques need to be part of an overall strategy within a
neighborhood and must be compatible with street activities and adjacent
land uses. All traffic management strategies have common aims: to improve
safety for people, especially children, and to provide a greater sense
of security.
Metro Nashville Public Works is making tremendous progress building a
network of bike routes in Davidson County. Since May 2003, when Metro
implemented Phase One of the Strategic Plan for Sidewalks and Bikeways,
13.27 miles of bikeways have been constructed. In the spring of 2004,
another 9.25 miles will be completed. Prior to 2003, there were 2.5 miles
of existing bike routes in the county.
Metro Nashville Public Works’ new Pavement Management Program, started
in September 2003, examines every public road in the county to determine
the condition of its pavement, its “ride quality,” and the
best means to repair, restore – and ultimately – prolong it.
Preventive maintenance is a key aspect because it means the city will
be able to stretch limited maintenance dollars, and save Metro taxpayers
thousands. A dollar’s worth of preventive maintenance spent early
in the life of a roadway can give the same improvement as four dollars
spent later when repairs are more expensive. Selection of the paving projects
and surface treatment projects began in May 2004. 
As
of August 15, 2003, the citizens of Davidson County have been able to
do something that they had not been able to do for several years. They
can visit their local branch library on Friday. Before, only Nashville’s
main library had offered Friday service, since its opening in 2000, but
that changed with all 20 branch libraries and the Metro Archives providing
eight hours of service on Fridays. In June, the Nashville Public Library
received $1 million to boost its operating budget in order to provide
Friday service at its branches. The additional funding came on the heels
of two consecutive years of record-breaking activity at the library.
The
opening ceremony for the Historic Civil Rights Room was held December
16, 2003. 
Projected visits to Metro libraries in FY04 will top 3,700,000
The
Nashville Public Library has made significant technology advances, resulting
in better, more efficient service to customers:
Bringing
Books to Life, a unique early childhood education program using the library's
performance team, served 271 children and their families in eight social
and care giving agencies through concentrated training for teachers and
literature-based children's and family activities.
Metro
Public Health Department efforts have lead to a continued drop in syphilis
rates from 250 cases in 1999, when Nashville ranked first nationally in
syphilis rates, to 25 cases in the past year. 
Nurses
at the Metro Public Health Department provided flu shots to nearly 24,000
members of the community - surpassing last year when they gave 16,000
doses of vaccine. Concern over flu-related child deaths in other areas
of the country lead to thousands from the community to bring their children
to the health department’s “Fast Lane Clinic” for a
flu shot. Davidson County had no flu-related deaths in children in the
past year.
Nearly
9,000 uninsured residents of Nashville have obtained access to health
care through the Bridges to Care program during the past year. An estimated
20,000 people have enrolled in the Brides to Care since the program began
in February of 2002. 
Over
the past year, 60 school health nurses completed more than 155,000 medical
procedures and interventions in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
The
Success By 6 program completed hearing, speech/language, vision, dental,
and health/developmental screenings for more than 2,600 at-risk children
age six months to five years. Success By 6 identified more than 2,100
medical issues among those screened that were referred to a medical provider.
Children’s
Special Services completed nearly 700 home visits, providing more than
500 audiological procedures and 735 speech services among children birth
to age 21 years, with chronic illnesses or disability needs.
The
health department’s Children’s Dental Clinic at the East Public
Health Center provided clinical services for more than 1,250 patients.
Children’s Dental Services dentists and dental hygienists placed
nearly 30,000 dental sealants on more than 6,000 children in Title One
schools during the past year. Dental screenings were performed on nearly
11,000 children. The rate of untreated cavities is decreasing among children
in Title One schools -- 44 percent in 02 compared to an anticipated 42
percent in 03. 
The
Healthy Start program nurses completed more than 3,400 home visits serving
more than 280 families during the past year providing support for first
time at-risk mothers by providing education regarding child safety, child
health, disease prevention, child development, and parenting skills.
The
Health Department’s Food Inspection Division conducted unannounced
inspections among more than 3,800 restaurants, snack bars, school cafeterias
and groceries a minimum of twice each year. Ten food inspectors conducted
nearly 13,000 inspections and provided food safety training to more than
5,400 people last year.
The
Metro Public Health Department implemented a fully integrated mosquito
control approach in the past year that is approved by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The approach includes education to reduce the threat of West Nile Virus
(WNV), surveillance of nearly 5,000 standing water areas and applying
larvacide when mosquito larvae are present, 
trapping
thousands of mosquitoes and testing them for West Nile virus, and spraying
to reduce the mosquito population after WNV had been confirmed in mosquitoes.
Areas with mosquitoes testing positive for WNV and areas with an extremely
high mosquito population (150 or more mosquitoes per trap in one night)
were targeted for spraying. Adulticide spraying was conducted from August
21 through October 15. Typically, 150 to 200 mosquitoes were captured
in traps prior to spraying and less than 10 mosquitoes were captured one
or two nights after spraying.
The
2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey revealed that Nashville youth report substantively
lower levels of tobacco use across several variables when compared with
youth across Tennessee and across the Nation. More specifically 23 percent
of Nashville youth report being current smokers, while 28 percent of Tennessee
and 29 percent of youth across the nation report current tobacco use.
Help
Us Grow (HUG) nurses and social workers completed 2,225 home visits in
the past year and served 245 families of high-risk pregnant women and
children up to age six. One hundred percent of families served could identify
their medical home.
Metro
Animal Control implemented daily neighborhood “sweeps” beginning
in October 2003, focusing on areas within the community where dogs are
known to run at large. As many as seven MAC trucks focus on identified
problem areas during each neighborhood sweep.
Metro Public Health Department Public Facilities staff inspected 850 public
swimming pools monthly during the past year to ensure the health and safety
of the community. Public Facilities staff also inspects more than 500
daycare facilities annually and inspect 195 hotels and motels a minimum
of twice each year.
For
the second year in a row, Nashville was named the “friendliest”
among the nation’s top 25 cities, according to nearly half a million
visitors who responded to a poll conducted by Travel + Leisure Magazine
and America Online. The article is features in the April 2004 issue of
Travel + Leisure Magazine. 
As
part of Mayor Purcell's initiative to provide more affordable housing
in Nashville, the HOPE (Home Ownership Preservation Effort) program’s
purpose is to preserve affordable housing stock in Nashville’s neighborhoods
for elderly and low-income homeowners. Over 250 persons have been assisted
since the programs inception leveraging over $2 million value of volunteer
labor. HOPE works with Nashville’s nonprofit development community
(primarily faith-based) utilizing volunteer labor to implement the program.
The
Mayor’s Office of Affordable Housing invested $250,000 in partnership
with MDHA to capitalize the Section 8 to Homeownership program. Nashville’s
program has been recognized as a national model and recently received
a Best Practices award from Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, a national
community development organization created by Congress.
Mayor
Bill Purcell marked the Mayor's Summit on Children and Youth with a call
for the development of a campaign that will help parents understand what
helps their pre-kindergarten children be most ready for school.
The
fifth annual Mayor’s Youth Summit was held March 10, 2004. The Mayor’s
Youth Council members partnered with several youth organizations for planning
and organizing the summit, such as the Girl Scouts of Cumberland Valley,
Oasis Youth Council, STARS, MPHD Youth Advisory Board, and Davidson County
4H. The title for this year’s summit was “A Healthier YOUth:
Inside and Out.” 
Students
attending Club Music City Miracle – an after-school enrichment collaboration
of the YMCA, PNA (Project for Neighborhood Aftercare) and Community Education
– for at least 90 days in 2002-03 were 3.36 points higher in math
and 4.19 points higher in English than the school averages for classroom
grades, and had higher TCAP scores in math (+3.7 points), language (+4.43
points) and reading (+2.35 points) than the school averages.
In
June 2003, Metro employees generously contributed to a food drive coordinated
by the Human Resources department to commemorate National Hunger Awareness
Week. Over 26,000 pounds of food was donated to Nashville's Second Harvest
Food Bank. Second Harvest reported that the Metro drive was their largest
week-long effort ever.
Under
the direction of the Human Resources department, Metro employees teamed
up to build a Habitat for Humanity home for an appreciative family. Many
employees participated in the initial fundraising efforts, and the real
teamwork was evident during the November 2003 build. Over the course of
four weekends, Metro employees built a warm and comfortable three-bedroom
home in Providence Park for the Alvarado family. 
Metro
Human Resources was tasked with leading the Metro Combined Charities Campaign
for the second straight year. Metro raised over $600,000, exceeding the
previous year’s successful campaign by over $13,000. The success
was attributed largely to the detailed training sessions Human Resources
gave department coordinators. Training was organized and conducted in
a joint effort of Human Resources, United Way, Community Health Charities,
and Community Shares.