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Virginia DuPuy Community Visioning Chair
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Organizers of Greater Waco's Community Vision plan to stay on track by bringing together an interested and diverse group of leaders twice a year to keep the “big picture” in focus.

The Community Visioning committee is headed by Mayor Virginia DuPuy.

The ambitious Community Vision has five target areas: to increase

economic opportunity, develop engaged leadership, identify the community’s advantages, enhance life outside the workplace and to market the community. It’s a road map developed through a series of town hall meetings and workshops.

Each group charged with implementing the vision has its own set of duties. While the Community Visioning committee is to review and reflect, a middle group, the coordinating committee includes people who have agreed to make sure the project stays on course and moves forward.

This group also includes five more people, each of whom leads a committee devoted to one of the vision’s priority areas. These five Priority Interest Area committees will decide what items need to move forward and in what form.

These people are not to invent anything new, but they are to become experts on what is happening in the community relative to their priority area.

The work of the Community Visioning committee involves taking off their own entity’s “hat” and asking themselves how the community is doing relative to the vision.
The Chamber will be involved in this group, which might look at health care or economic development, for example, and someone might decide the issue is a natural one for his institution or organization to grapple with.

The Community Visioning committee, which is still being formed, will be the “keeper of the vision." If a new vision is necessary, they will be the ones who say so.