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Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful Gateway Committee/ Liberty County Strategic Goals Increase number of updated litter fines on local and state roads  Monitor stats from prisoner pick up and volunteer cleanups  Set up 10 additional litter signs in targeted areas on county roads  Request DOT to put up updated litter signs in targeted areas on state highways. They have approved 9 locations.

Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful Gateway Committee/ Liberty County Strategic Goals Serve on Gateway Committee  to select Liberty County signage at five gateways  to help determine sign as well as landscape design,  to implement landscape (using low maintenance, drought tolerant plants) with the understanding that there is a clear long-term plan for maintenance for sites

Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful Good Neighbors Campaign Goal to encourage local citizens to consider how their choices--- active and inactive—affect their neighbors and fellow citizens. Good Neighbors keep it clean keep it green Don’t litter  Secure their truck and boat loads so no blown litter  Keep yard and house maintained—grass mowed regularly,  house not in state of disrepair, no junk, old cars and appliances Participate with local neighbors to keep street and  neighborhood clean and attractive

Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful Implemented the campaign in September on National Good Neighbor Day.  Our first activity besides newspaper articles was a Good Neighbor poster campaign in nine elementary schools. We had 580 entries. Teachers used the campaign to discuss in class some of the main points of our campaign and how these children and their families could be Good Neighbors.  Ads in Newcomers Magazine and in Business and Progress Issue (2 so far)  Periodic columns throughout the year in newspaper—5 so far

Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful  Banners (and proposed info boards) at LCSW convenience centers and recycling centers  Yard signs  Donated movie theatre ads  Small billboards in town periodically  Car magnet signs  Websites and facebook etc —KLB, Chamber, municipalities  Static poster displays at city halls and other public venues/events periodically.  Temp road signs that we will rotate on local roads in the spring.  Info in KLB, Chamber, county, and municipal newsletters throughout the year  Home/yard recognition program called HomeProud this spring

Keep Keep Liberty Beautiful Liberty Beautiful These Good Neighbor promotional activities will work in conjunction with some of our current programs: Adopt Liberty Win-dex Awards for attractive businesses NEAT Neighborhoods Native Plants Campaign Road Warriors