About Us
ICON’s Goal
The primary goal of those neighborhood representatives is to find and secure 6 votes from within the Springfield City Council including the Mayor.
Leadership
On Monday, October 9th, 2010, 30 representatives from 18 neighborhood associations formally approved the ICON ByLaws. Icon also has a board of directors.
ICON History
The Coalition of Inner City Older Neighborhoods (ICON) first met on Monday, March 29th, 2010. The meeting was the result of discussions among seven inner city neighborhoods about the lack of time, energy, and resources being directed to the older neighborhoods and the resulting blight to the central core of the city. Attending the first meeting were nineteen representatives from 12 neighborhood associations who reviewed and identified their most pressing problems.
Over the next six months these problems were clarified with input from a number of guest speakers into specific items to use as the political agenda for the coalition.