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The EDP is an active member of the Economic Vitality Partnership (EVP). The EVP is a consortium of fourteen economic development, government and social service organizations. working together to keep Benton County a vibrant place to live, work and play.

As part of that charge, the EVP has a goal of creating a unified strategic plan to act as an umbrella for economic development services in Benton County, creating greater collaboration and eliminating redundancy wherever possible. Using the Vision 2020, as a starting place, the EVP is working to devise a plan to attain the attributes provided on the Economic Vitality page. To see the Vision 2020 Statement, click the link:

http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=188

The process outlined by the Strategic Planning Team, includes community and business input and is accomplished by two distinct surveys, one engaging the community, the other engaging businesses. The information will be used by a facilitator, hired by the EVP through a grant from the City of Corvallis, to guide the process, identify themes for a strategic planning event to be held in March or April and to identify areas of special interest for focus groups.

At the end of the planning event, the facilitator, will create a strategy document that includes 1, 5 and 20 year goals with workplans for the next 1-5 years. Work plans must show well identified objectives, local champions, work teams, deliverables, budgets and deadlines.

We are very exicted about this process and hope you will choose to engage with us. By taking the community survey or the B&I survey, your name and information will be added to the invitation list, so please get involved and become part of this important process.

http://www.InsightsNow.com/evp_survey.htm