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Contact: Paula Hertwig Hopkins Assistant City Manager - (573) 874-7214

Columbia’s Vision Commission to meet for the first time Jan. 6

COLUMBIA, MO (December 18, 2008) - The newly formed Columbia Vision Commission (CVC) will hold its first meeting Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 4 p.m. in the Fourth Floor Conference of the Daniel Boone Building at 701 E. Broadway. The CVC will help track and facilitate implementation of Columbia’s vision plan in accordance with the following timeline.

• March 31, 2009: CVC will have developed an overall framework for tracking progress of vision implementation.

• December 2009: CVC will present an annual vision implementation progress report.

• Every two years thereafter: the commission will review past implementation efforts and provide recommendations on implementing goals for the next two years.

• 2014: the CVC will convene a community-wide dialogue to review the vision plan and assess implementation progress. This will continue in five-year increments.

Columbia Vision Commission members were appointed by City Council Monday, Dec. 15. Coordinating committee members selected to serve five-year terms include M. Dianne Drainer, Jan Weaver and Jeffrey Williams. Daniel Goldstein and Julio Lorio will serve four-year terms. Tracy Greever-Rice and Jay Lindner were appointed to three-year terms. The council also appointed two resource members, Lorenzo Lawson and Philip Peters Jr.

The CVC was originally to consist of seven coordinating committee members and two resource members. A proposed revision to the ordinance was submitted for first reading last Monday. If approved at the Jan. 5 Council meeting, resource members Lawson and Peters will become coordinating committee members with two-year terms.

The nine members would then be authorized to select up to five non-voting resource members to contribute expertise in specific areas the commission deems necessary.

For more information on visioning and the opportunity to sign up to receive Vision news and updates by email, please visit www.GoColumbiaMo.com, or call (573) 874-7214.

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