A Beautification Contest Between Districts

While campaigning door to door, I met a family who’ve done wonders to their yard. They would qualify for my idea posted September 9th.

The landscape they put in has the look of a miniature mountainside, surrounded by lawn. The mountain has a miniature evergreen and a child safe waterfall.

While he was showing me the waterfall it hit me, let's have a beautification contest.

The city could publish before and after pictures of the top five landscape improvements for each of the four West Valley Districts. We could have the City's residents vote for their favorite in each primary election.

The Top winner could earn $10,000 dollars. The next three top landscape winners could get $5,000. For the District that garners the most votes, the Districts five homeowners would be awarded $1,000 each. Healthy competition between Districts could be fun.

We could even award the contractors of the five best landscapes, with a free business license for a year. (They would probably have to be WVC contractors, unless we could negotiate something, between Cities through the Council of Governments.)

This would motivate people to beautify their landscapes, motivate contractors to do their best work every time and may improve the 7% voter turnout in the primaries.

We could fund this through donations, from individuals and businesses that want improved beautification in West Valley. Realty and landscaping companies would benefit and would be a good source for donations to fund the prizes. They would get a tax write-off. This sounds even better now that I've written it down.

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
- Alfred Nobel.

The Time is Right for Jeff White