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- Changed governance structure
- Reformed personnel systems and administration
- Improved facilities management and maintenance
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- Reforming curriculum and programs to improve student achievement
- Strengthening and expanding early education
- Improving interagency coordination
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 education plans.
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- Reformed Fire/EMS organization
- Began modernization of police equipment
- Designed new forensic laboratory
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- Increasing police presence and human services outreach in targeted high-crime areas
- Protecting residents' right to a gun-free city
- Implementing the EMS reform plan
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 public safety plans.
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- Expanded East of the River HIV/AIDS outreach
- Reorganized Departments of Health and Disability Services
- Stabilized Greater Southeast Community Hospital
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- Reducing preventable infant deaths
- Creating medical homes to serve as community-based health centers
- Using needle exchange to reduce HIV/AIDS exposure
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 healthcare plans.
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- Improved safety with traffic calming measures and the Street Smart education program
- Retrofitted District buildings with green roofs
- Expanded Circulator and Metro Extra bus service
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- “Greening” the District’s building codes
- Initiating construction on three Great Streets corridors
- Increasing opportunities to recycle household hazardous waste and unwanted electronics
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 infrastructure and environment plans.
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- Opened a one-stop permitting center
- Increased enforcement of consumer, housing, labor and environmental laws
- Launched CapStat accountability program
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- Transitioning 727-1000 to 311
- Returning vacant properties to productive use
- Moving toward the end of court monitoring and administration of District government agencies
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 customer service plans.
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- Increased summer youth employment to its highest level in a decade
- Provided funding for more than 2,000 units of affordable housing
- Created a green-collar jobs council
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- Expanding affordable housing
- Moving from shelter to home for formerly homeless residents
- Increasing summer youth and ex-offender employment
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Read more about the Administration's 2008 jobs and housing plans.
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- Consolidated the National Capital Revitalization and Anacostia Waterfront Corporations
- Reinvigorated stalled development projects
- Drove investment east of the Anacostia River
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- Using tax increment financing to draw economic resources to neighborhoods
- Opening Nationals stadium on time
- Selecting development team for Poplar Point, the District’s largest development opportunity
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