[Electronic-lan] Fwd: FW: City creating community-wide economic development strategic plan

Wed Aug 5 09:32:00 CDT 2020

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From: Diane Stoddard <dstoddard at lawrenceks.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:31 PM
Subject: FW: City creating community-wide economic development strategic
plan
To: Diane Stoddard <dstoddard at lawrenceks.org>

Hi! Please help us get the word out about the community-wide strategic plan
work by passing this along to your contacts and organizations!  We welcome
anyone to participate!

*Thanks, Diane*

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*Diane Stoddard*, Assistant City Manager – dstoddard at lawrenceks.org

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*From:* City of Lawrence <cityhall at lawrenceks.org>
*Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2020 2:59 PM
*To:* Diane Stoddard <dstoddard at lawrenceks.org>
*Subject:* City creating community-wide economic development strategic plan

August 3, 2020

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*City creating community-wide economic development strategic plan*

The City of Lawrence and its community partners are excited to come
together to develop a community-wide economic development strategic plan.
This plan seeks bold, fresh and innovative ideas to not only recover from
the impacts of the pandemic, but to create an even better and stronger
economy for the community going forward. Ernst & Young Economic Development
Advisory Services (EDAS) will be assisting the City and its partners in
developing the community-wide plan.

A first for the City, the community-wide economic development strategic
plan, will be designed to guide the actions of the City, in cooperation
with our business and community partners, to achieve goals for an
economically secure, innovative, inclusive and vibrant community. The plan
is intended to build on the City’s previous economic successes, identify
top economic development opportunities for the next few years, prepare the
City to respond proactively to the negative effects of the COVID-19
pandemic, and develop an action plan for increasing economic growth and
prosperity for Lawrence.

Community input will be vitally important and will be incorporated
throughout this process. The City and EDAS team have developed a
comprehensive communications and stakeholder engagement program that uses a
variety of platforms to solicit inclusive, broad-based feedback from the
community, including a series of virtual stakeholder meetings and a
community survey.

   - *Virtual Stakeholder Meetings*: More than a dozen meetings will be
   held from Wednesday, August 12 through Friday, August 28. We encourage
   everyone in our community to participate. The registration forms and
   additional information are available on the City’s website:
   lawrenceks.org/ed/strategic-plan
   <https://lawrenceks.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ca5a42664e87643b2b54d343&id=3f99ca97fb&e=7013e5cd6e>
   .
   - *Community Survey*: The survey is available both online, via Lawrence
   Listens
   <https://lawrenceks.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ca5a42664e87643b2b54d343&id=450a6b4160&e=7013e5cd6e>,
   as well as in paper copies that can be picked up and dropped off at various
   community locations, including Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence Workforce
   Center, Peaslee Technical Center and City Hall.

After input is received, the EDAS team will use the information collected
to create reports that will be posted online throughout the plan
development process. All new reports will be available on the economic
development strategic plan web page: lawrenceks.org/ed/strategic-plan
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Once completed, this plan will serve as a roadmap for the City and its
Community partners to build upon local economic advantages, address
opportunities for improvements and provide a mechanism to evaluate efforts
and redirect policies where needed. Both the City of Lawrence and the EDAS
team are excited to work together to make Lawrence a more prosperous and
vibrant community.

More information on the economic development strategic plan and
opportunities to provide input are available on the City website:
lawrenceks.org/ed/strategic-plan
<https://lawrenceks.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7ca5a42664e87643b2b54d343&id=f888cccaec&e=7013e5cd6e>.
The City is encouraging visitors to the web page to sign up to receive
automatic email updates so that they can stay up-to-date with the latest
news.

*Contact*: Britt Crum-Cano, *Economic Development Administrator*,
bcano at lawrenceks.org

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