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Date Posted: Thursday, September 23, 09:23:38am
Author: Dave Zitzkat
Subject: My Input
In reply to: Joe Gareis 's message, "Not much info available at this point" on Wednesday, September 22, 05:42:30am

Yes, I did go. I got my fake money and walked out with it. The message I wanted to send was I would prefer to keep my money. I don't think they got it, though.



>>...so he would describe this better than I would.
>>
>>Some years ago, they called citizens down to a meeting
>>to determine their relative spending priorities. They
>>were given a finite number of fake dollar bills and
>>told to 'spend' the money on various projects of their
>>choosing. This was supposed to give the consulting
>>firm that was conducting the meeting an idea of what
>>people valued most.
>>
>>I don't believe it had anything to do with economic
>>development, but the methods were simplistic and
>>didn't allow people to choose NOT to spend the play
>>money. I'm a tad cynical about these studies now.
>>
>>Maybe Dave will chime in here!
>>
>>>Linda, Can you elaborate on that? I'm not familiar
>>>with what you are referring to. Thanks!
>
>From what I recall, the study 7-8 years ago under
>Baxter-Jones was an evaluation of where residents
>stand on issues like development and open space, which
>was used to help develop a long-term plan for the
>town. That planning doc should be available at town
>hall or the library.
>
>I think what they're talking about now is more like:
>If we had a professional economic development officer
>in town how would he/she go about planning to attract
>new businesses to the town center? When Dan Jerram
>talked about it briefly at the BOF mtg last week, he
>seemed to view it as exploratory and he didn't seem to
>have any illusions about the current commercial real
>estate market.

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