{"id":43403,"date":"2024-03-19T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=43403"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:49:40","slug":"cic-strategic-planning-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/cic-strategic-planning-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"CIC Strategic Planning Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?resize=666%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43404\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?resize=560%2C303&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?resize=260%2C141&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?resize=160%2C86&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Pictured: Estee Miller-presenting.\u00a0 L-R:\u00a0 Denise Coleman, Jennifer Zartman, Jan Reeb, Tyson Mowery, Brian Davis, Todd Cook, Mike Meyer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Antwerp\/Payne\/Paulding County Community Improvement Corporation held a team building event including a strategic planning session in Antwerp on March 5th. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estee Miller with the Maumee Valley Planning Organization, and current CIC board member, led the meeting of nine members of the CIC board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion centered around the creation of a Mission and Vision statement and a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis. &nbsp; Goals were identified for the current year and for the next 3-5 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priorities were divided into three categories: Development, Quality of Life, and Organizational.&nbsp; The group then identified points in each category.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Development:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Empty store fronts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Assets and transportation\u2014rail and highway<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Affordable housing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Working with stakeholders to identify properties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quality of Life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Fresher food options<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Assets-River<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Tourism- Ag flows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizational:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Establish active committees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;External communication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;County profile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission Statement- To improve our communities through promoting a positive business culture. Assisting with commercial, industrial, civic and residential development and advancing the quality of life for residents and visitors to Paulding County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vision Statement- A clean, safe, prosperous community where people want to live, work and play.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group meets bi-monthly and will continue to discuss and act on projects that have the potential to move Paulding County forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Antwerp\/Payne\/Paulding County Community Improvement Corporation held a team building event including a strategic planning session in Antwerp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,6,2301],"tags":[14262,15527,14765,7071,17411,17514,15528,21591],"class_list":["post-43403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-general-news","tag-antwerp-cic","tag-cic","tag-community-improvement-corporation","tag-estee-miller","tag-maumee-valley-planning-organization","tag-paulding-cic","tag-payne-cic","tag-swot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CIC-meeting.jpeg?fit=666%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-bi3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:16:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43405,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions\/43405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}