5A- Identifying Local Opportunities
Former city worker agrees to prison deal
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200130/former-city-worker-agrees-to-prison-deal
In this article, a woman who was a city worker in Gainesville indirectly stole $93,000 from taxpayers. She used the city card over a sixteen-month period and purchased items ranging from food to a television. The problem presented is that money was stolen from the city government. This problem affects the local government as well as Gainesville taxpayers. Although it may seem like a rare case, people steal from organizations quite often. A programmed auditing system that checks balances on a day to day basis then an opportunity like this would not exist.
4 injured in two-vehicle crash Friday morning
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200126/4-injured-in-two-vehicle-crash-friday-morning
In article, there was a car accident between two cars by Steak N Shake on Southwest 16th Avenue. The cause of the car accident is currently being investigated. A frequent problem that occurs in Gainesville is car accidents on Southwest. A solution to this opportunity would be to have more self-driving cars on the road. This problem affects the residents of Gainesville and those to drive on Southwest frequently.
Sheriff’s Office investigating after man found shot, injured in East Hall
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/badge-bar/sheriffs-office-investigating-after-man-found-shot-injured-in-east-hall/
A man was shot and was left on the side of the road. Everyone involved left the scene by the time the police arrived. The opportunity in this article is to decrease crime in the city of Gainesville. This problem affects the residents of Gainesville as they do not feel safe. With stronger gun control this problem would not exist.
Gainesville medieval fair adds extra weekend to combat overcrowding
https://www.alligator.org/news/gainesville-medieval-fair-adds-extra-weekend-to-combat-overcrowding/article_ecceeaec-43d3-11ea-bb31-579918d4a52f.html
There is a Medieval Festival at Gainesville Park. People dress in medieval costumes and indulge in crafts such as puppetry. The problem addressed in this article is that there was overcrowding and to combat that they added an extra weekend to the event. This problem affects people to attend the event as well as the residents in Gainesville who are commuting. A better solution to use a program that can estimate possible attendees and accounting for that have the event in a larger area to avoid overcrowding.
Stabbing suspect in custody
https://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Stabbing-suspect-in-custody-567450321.html
A man turned himself in for stabbing a man in the back after an argument with the Victim at the Whiskey River Saloon. The problem addressed in this article is someone was violently stabbed. Maybe developing a new drug for mental health to prevent crazy people from committing crimes like this could be an opportunity.
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200130/former-city-worker-agrees-to-prison-deal
In this article, a woman who was a city worker in Gainesville indirectly stole $93,000 from taxpayers. She used the city card over a sixteen-month period and purchased items ranging from food to a television. The problem presented is that money was stolen from the city government. This problem affects the local government as well as Gainesville taxpayers. Although it may seem like a rare case, people steal from organizations quite often. A programmed auditing system that checks balances on a day to day basis then an opportunity like this would not exist.
4 injured in two-vehicle crash Friday morning
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200126/4-injured-in-two-vehicle-crash-friday-morning
In article, there was a car accident between two cars by Steak N Shake on Southwest 16th Avenue. The cause of the car accident is currently being investigated. A frequent problem that occurs in Gainesville is car accidents on Southwest. A solution to this opportunity would be to have more self-driving cars on the road. This problem affects the residents of Gainesville and those to drive on Southwest frequently.
Sheriff’s Office investigating after man found shot, injured in East Hall
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/badge-bar/sheriffs-office-investigating-after-man-found-shot-injured-in-east-hall/
A man was shot and was left on the side of the road. Everyone involved left the scene by the time the police arrived. The opportunity in this article is to decrease crime in the city of Gainesville. This problem affects the residents of Gainesville as they do not feel safe. With stronger gun control this problem would not exist.
Gainesville medieval fair adds extra weekend to combat overcrowding
https://www.alligator.org/news/gainesville-medieval-fair-adds-extra-weekend-to-combat-overcrowding/article_ecceeaec-43d3-11ea-bb31-579918d4a52f.html
There is a Medieval Festival at Gainesville Park. People dress in medieval costumes and indulge in crafts such as puppetry. The problem addressed in this article is that there was overcrowding and to combat that they added an extra weekend to the event. This problem affects people to attend the event as well as the residents in Gainesville who are commuting. A better solution to use a program that can estimate possible attendees and accounting for that have the event in a larger area to avoid overcrowding.
Stabbing suspect in custody
https://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Stabbing-suspect-in-custody-567450321.html
A man turned himself in for stabbing a man in the back after an argument with the Victim at the Whiskey River Saloon. The problem addressed in this article is someone was violently stabbed. Maybe developing a new drug for mental health to prevent crazy people from committing crimes like this could be an opportunity.
Hi Felipe, overall, I enjoyed reading your post and felt that your responses were sufficient and stayed within the Gainesville community. Although, many of the articles you picked were one-time issues such as a car crash, and it would be challenging to solve a problem like this. Many of the solutions you have could potentially work, but there could be major issues with time lag in trying to implement them.
ReplyDeleteHi Felipe,
ReplyDeleteNice job on describing the articles and trying to come up with solutions. You mentioned that self driving cars might reduce the amount of accidents and I recently saw an article that said Gainesville will be getting self driving buses. Although I personally think it sounds dangerous, maybe this will help prevent accidents and your idea could be proven true.
Hi Felipe,
ReplyDeleteIn total, I really liked reading your post and I felt like it fits perfectly within the parameters of the rubric. One thing that I would suggest to change, is that some of the articles were only about problems that cannot really be solved long-term such as the man getting shot by the police or a car accident. Overall though, great job on this assignment and I hope that you keep up the hard work.