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Updated (6 May 2008)

Posted Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting of 25 March 2008 and added, reorganized past minutes under "Org, Minutes & Bylaws" Tab

Updated (3March 2008)

Revised Board of Directors

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Updated (10 February 2008)

Added Quick access to Study Group Reports (See below)

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3. Recommendations for Regional Transportation:

     SG3A    Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization

2. Recommendations for the Hampton Roads Partnership:

    SG2    Strengthening the Hampton Roads Partenership:

    SG2A    HRP - Structure

    SG2B    HRP - Visioning and Measurement

    SG2C    HRP - News Bureau

    SG2D    HRP - Legislative Agenda

4. Recommendations on Regional Efficiency

    SG4C    Hampton Roads Workforce Investment Board

    SG4D    Modernizing Virginia's Dillon Rule

5. Recommendations to create a Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement

    SG5        Effective Public Participation

For comments or questions contact Harry Train at:  trainh@fhrinc.org or (757) 623-1988

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Welcome to the Future of Hampton Roads

Serving Hampton Roads - America's First Region

 

Take a look around to learn more about The Future of Hampton Roads, Inc., the people who represent the engine of its activities, its past history, its mission and its current efforts.

 

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Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg and the Counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Southampton, Surry and York

Mission

 of The Future of Hampton Roads, Inc

Hampton Roads will be a place that enjoys the benefit of an innovative political union invested with the power to represent effectively the citizens of the entire region on issues of common interest.

The Future of Hampton Roads, Inc. is a nonpartisan, apolitical organization that was founded in 1982 by a group of Hampton Roads community leaders who were committed to improving the quality of life for the citizenry of Hampton Roads currently and into the next century.

Recognizing the undeniable benefits of regionalism, The Future of Hampton Roads, Inc. has as its mission to encourage, support, and sustain activities and other organizations which promote regionalism; and to work toward achieving the vision of a political union representing the region.

The Future of Hampton Roads. Inc. will:

1. Identify resources, issues and problems amenable to regional development and solution.

2. Provide the institutional knowledge and experience to assist regional endeavors, that improve the quality of life of the area’s citizens, especially broad community-building activities in economic development, education, culture, and professional sports.

3. Serve as a clearinghouse for information about regional activities and organizations, continue to be the source of extensive community knowledge, and be properly informed to determine the appropriate positions to take and initiatives to pursue.

4. Encourage members to be actively involved and provide leadership in other organizations whose missions are supportive of improving the region’s economy and quality of life.

5. Create opportunities to develop and enhance leadership in the region by identifying and serving as mentors to individuals who will move into leadership positions with a commitment to become involved in community-building activities beyond the immediate scope of their day to day responsibilities.

6. Develop and sustain relationships with the news media and opinion makers of the region and nation to encourage fair and positive references to Hampton Roads, and promote Hampton Roads as the name of this region.

7. Seek out creative opportunities to diversify and expand the region’s economy through business and professional associations, and act as ambassadors in dealings with others located and doing business outside Hampton Roads.

8. Identify organizations and elements in the community whose actions impede or could more effectively achieve regional goals, and thoughtfully and discreetly challenge them to realize their community’s expectations.

9. Serve as an action agency for regional initiatives when no other organization can or will pursue such initiatives.

10. Encourage and support processes which can result ultimately in the creation of an innovative political union of the constituent jurisdictions composing the region of Hampton Roads.

More information on the Future of Hampton Roads, Inc. can be obtained by calling Vince Thomas), chairman of the board at (757) 622-4658 or Jake Tobin, secretary of the organization. at (757) 623-1988.

Hampton Roads, the nations 34th largest market and the largest metropolitan area between Washington. DC and Atlanta, is composed of the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton. Newport News, Norfolk. Poquoson. Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg and Virginia Beach and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews. Southampton, Surry and York. This area of common interest extending tram Williamsburg to the North Carolina border represents 1.7 million people.