Why I Think We Should Have 20 Seats On The K-REDI Executive Committee. I have served on more than a few charities, boards, and commissions over the years. It is practical, everyday, no-nonsense experience. So let me say that our biggest problems are motivation, innovation, and follow through. Organizations need to have motivated individuals. They also need to have enough people so that there can be highly focused committees filled with people who are specialized in the committee’s goal. The best organizations have large groups of full voting members which are then divided into smaller 5-6 people subcommittees with narrow objectives and goals. In the case of K-REDI we should have subcommittees for Development of Job Creation in the 1. Medical, 2. Educational , 3. Light Industry, 4. Heavy Industry, and 5. Public Service Infrastructure fields to determine which aspects and businesses we need to pursue and what is needed to bring that outside investment into the community. This alone would take 25-30 people. By being on the one subcommittee they are interested in we would see more innovative ideas and solutions. But, each one of them would have to be a full voting member of the executive committee because, quite frankly, they are unpaid volunteers and won’t stay if they aren’t taken seriously with a say in the final decisions. I wouldn’t, would you? These subcommittees would then report their findings and needs to subcommittees for Land Development and Marketing who would develop sites and marketing strategies to promote the community. That’s another dozen people. It would seem that the smartest move we can make is to have the people working in the Health Care and Medical Education Industry and interested seeing an expansion in Medical Jobs advise the entire group – after all who better to know what’s needed to get those jobs to locate here. The same goes for Education, Light and Heavy Industry, Land Development, etc. We can’t expect a limited group of a dozen or so individuals to be experts in everything! It is perfectly reasonable to expect each councilman to be able come up with 3 people out of all the thousands that live in Kirksville to serve on K-REDI’s Executive Committee. Taking the city as a whole – Teachers, Professionals, Tradesmen, Factory Workers, working and retired – I know we have it in us to come up with the winning solutions. There is more to getting a business to invest its money in our community than being able to buy a cheap building or getting tax abatements – people have to WANT to live in our town, we need to listen to the people that live and work here. After all our town is, in fact, the ONLY thing we have to market.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:09:16 +0000
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