After applying for the first time last year, Becky Daguette, Mayor of Flag Staff, is one of the eight mayors selected to participate in the mayor’s research institute.Micd) 2025 Mayor Fellowship, from this week.
The MICD Fellowship program helps the mayor to educate the city’s design and overcome the problems that the city has.
From February to April, Daggett will attend complete homework and measurement values assigned by virtual conferences and fellowship staff. The program starts and ends with a two -day face -to -face event Harvard Graduate School At Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This year, Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, and Tennessee mayors will participate with Daggett. All US mayors are eligible to apply for a fellowship if the application form is opened and the needs of the city are based on how they match the theme of the program.
This program has a different theme every year, and this year we are working on a national housing crisis.
“The next round is focusing not only on affordable housing, but also for the fairness necessary for housing,” said Daguette. “”[I am] I am very excited because an affordable house is my biggest problem, and I think it is one of the top problems of the flag staff. “
In 2020, the flag staff city council declared A Housing emergencyDiscipline the need to prioritize an affordable house Zoning problem Build costs. This resolution led to the creation of flag staff. 10 years of housing planIt is an initiative for creating or preserving more than 7,900 housing units by adjusting the zoning code by 2031, generating additional funding sources, and linking locals to existing resources.
Housing Committee Approved This plan for 2022.
MICD PARTNERS based in Cambridge Just City Lab Form a fellowship at Harvard University Design Graduate School. JUST CITY LAB’s mission is to recognize how urban design can lead to fraudulent and fight new infrastructure.
The program is fully funded by Harvard University’s Design Graduate School.
“I don’t know about the budget for other cities, but there are no unlimited resources for developing specialized skills,” said Daguette. “It’s a big deal to provide free to this city.”
Select the member Flag staff housing staff Participate in Daggett by virtual training. They also join her on the final face -to -face weekend in Cambridge.
To make it easier to access the neighborhood in partnership with the city’s housing staff, it is said that Daguette is aiming for her.
“When cooperating with the city’s housing staff, Daggett says: There is a federal funding in a specific area, we do not receive the federal government, not focus. I wanted to focus on the old area. “
US mayor meeting First, I introduced Daggett to the fellowship through her membership. MICD announced at each meeting, and Daggett said she gave her the opportunity to see what the program was.
The main focus of Daggett is equality and inclusion. She plans to prioritize this program. Her fellowship plan focuses on the access of all people, such as built parks and sidewalks in areas where they do not have them.
“My interest in a affordable house is to confirm that the flag staff stay in a variety of towns, and people who have invested in flag staff live in the flag staff.” Daguette said.
Fellowship is not the first Harvard certification program that Daguette attended. At first Program for the new mayorWe recommend that the new mayor is preparing for the first 100 days of taking office.
“I think it was really nice to participate, because I was really focusing on the problems I might not have already thought until I was in the middle,” said Daguette.
Daguette believes that she helped her after her selected, and she believed that she was a very valuable experience.
Additional information about the fellowship program MICD website。
