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Published August 11, 2009 03:23 pm - Joplin residents can help plot the course of the city or perhaps even their neighborhoods. That’s the intent of the city’s second “envisioning” meeting to be conducted Saturday. It’s an opportunity for people to tell the City Council and city administrators what issues or projects are important, or what needs affect Joplin’s quality of life. City plans ‘envisioning’ session toward extending 10-year plan By Debby Woodin
dwoodin@joplinglobe.com Joplin residents can help plot the course of the city or perhaps even their neighborhoods. That’s the intent of the city’s second “envisioning” meeting to be conducted Saturday. It’s an opportunity for people to tell the City Council and city administrators what issues or projects are important, or what needs affect Joplin’s quality of life. City officials say residents or representatives of organizations may speak Saturday morning. Each person will be given five minutes. Ideas submitted at the session will be categorized, and the council will rank the categories at its retreat next spring. It will use that information to update the “Blueprint for the Future,” a 10-year plan to guide the city’s efforts toward making changes. “The process has worked great,” said Mayor Gary Shaw. “I think it’s been outstanding. Any time you can get people to come out and buy into what we are doing, it’s great.” The mayor said he is so sold on the effort and the resulting plan that he asked the city staff to hang poster-size copies of the blueprint on the wall of the council’s informal meeting room at City Hall. “That’s so we can say we’ve completed this and we’ve done that, and we’ve got that to do yet,” Shaw said. “It’s a good way to be able to say ‘Hey, I’ve done something.’” Resident reaction Crystal Harrington, who represents the Home Builders Association of Southwest Missouri and co-owns Columbia Traders, a downtown deli, attended the 2007 session regarding the blueprint. She encouraged the city to add technology to its building-permit operation so that building requests could be handled more quickly. “I thought the process they went through and the way they did that was very valuable,” Harrington said. “Asking for input from citizens is ideally the way that whole system of government should work. “The issues I raised really haven’t been addressed, and it’s probably not because of the city malingering, but because of the downturn in the housing market. The implementation of computerized systems to speed up our process is moot now because there are less permits being issued. Building is not as fervent as it was.” Drawing on ideas 
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