While we and the mayor found some common ground during our time together, we left with few substantive commitments. Mayor Krewson is still evaluating her options and is not yet ready to put a stake in the ground. She has yet to embrace, declare, enact and enforce a clear path forward for our city that will transform the business as usual mentality that has retarded our progress and prosperity. What we need right now from Mayor Krewson is not a perfect plan, but an adoption of a culture of trying, an embrace of Dr. King’s wisdom to “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”