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Clear Vision Eau Claire
Community Visioning
Strategic Planning
Public Work
Eau Claire
• 66,000 population, 95,000 in Chippewa
Valley
• Regional center for health, retail,
education, manufacturing
• 15 (separate) local municipal
governments
• 12 school districts
• 3 special Lake districts
Participatory Model of
Citizenship
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Promotes collaborative problem-solving
Incorporates diverse perspectives & views
Promotes public dialogue
Creates open, public spaces
Restructures mediating institutions
Citizens as primary actors in public
problem-solving
Clear Vision Eau Claire: Initial
Goals
• Increase the level of citizen participation
in community problem-solving
• Reverse the current sense of
disconnectedness by citizens
• Build a community consensus for
priority action
• Generate a vision for the Eau Claire
community
Phase I: Initial Planning
• $40,000 pledged
• National Civic League
Consultant/Planner
• 10 Community meetings, open to all,
generated core group of 150
representative members
• 15 group initiating committee
Phase II: Stakeholder Planning
• Initiating committee planned year-long
process
• 500 Stakeholders identified and invited
• Public meetings every 3-4 weeks
• Meet directly with some minority
communities, such as the Hmong
• Plan produced in June 2008
Clear Vision Plan: Six Key
Performance Areas
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Civic Engagement
Economic Development
Lifelong Learning
Community-Wide Health Care
Quality of Life, now and for future
Integrated Transportation System
Phase III: Implementation
(Public Work)
• Contract with Center for Democracy and
Citizenship
• Training sessions for “coaches” and
implementation team members
• Facilitating “public work”
• Techniques of Values House Meeting,
One-to-Ones, Power-Mapping, &
Coaching using Public Achievement
Model
Successes
• Parks & Recreation: Financing Public
Parks
• Jobs Map, Resources Map
• University-Assisted Community Schools
and Book Distribution
• Eco-teams, Eco-communities
• Regional Transportation and High
Speed Rail Route
Challenges
• Changing perspectives—public
government or schools cannot do it all
in an era of declining support
• Recruiting diverse and inclusive core
group; keeping individuals and KPAs
energized, supported, appreciated, and
renewed
• Deciding what to be when we grow up?
• Marketing
Future Plans
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Diversity and Latino/Latina community
RTA Work Group
Civic Engagement Work Group
Public Achievement
Public Work Training for Elected
Officials (6-29-2010)
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