R2009-148 APPROVING AND ADOPTING MACON COUNTY - DECATUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

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Page � 2 ❖ Emails or letters were sent to everyone who attended the town hall meetings, focus groups and other outreach events informing them that the Draft Plan was available for viewing and soliciting their comments. One letter and a few phone comments were received. ❖ Contact was made with township officials and meetings were held with 9 supervisors. ❖ Staff participated in 3 radio interviews on the Draft Plan. One on one conversations were held with major employers, government officials, business owners, company CEO's and many other stakeholders prior to and after release of the Draft Plan. ❖ General information was made available and locations for viewing the Draft Plan were provided to those attending the various neighborhood meetings. ❖ Presentations were made to a number of local civic and business groups, including the Macon County Mayor's Association, the Farm Bureau, Decatur Jobs Council, Chamber of ' Commerce, Forsyth Rotary Club, DUATS, Education Coalition and Leadership Breakfast. ❖ Discussions with the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) on details of the Plan continued from October 2008 through May 2009. ❖ In May 2009, the RPC recommended that Draft Plan, with the changes and corrections ' be sent to the Count 's Environment Education, Health & Welfare EEHW Committee for its Y , � ) a roval and to forward the Final Draft Plan on to the full County Board. NN ❖ Staff met with the EEHW Committee in May 2009, provided what the RPC had re uested and the Plan has been forwarded to the Count Board where it is antici ated to wait q Y p for the Final Draft of the Plan to be completed. ❖ All changes and corrections to date have been completed. Staff prepared a summary of the changes and current copies of the Final Draft were printed for distribution to the Steering Committee. ❖ The Steering Committee met on June 4, 2009, at which time a few, minor modifications were made. The meeting was concluded with their formal and unanimous adoption of a Resolution recommending that the Final Draft, dated May 22, 2009, be approved and adopted by the Decatur City Council and Macon County Board. ❖ At their meeting on July 9, 2009, the Macon County Board unanimously adopted a Resolution approving the Final Draft Plan. ❖ On August 6, 2009, the Decatur Plan Commission unanimously recommended that the Final Draft Plan be adopted by the Decatur City Council.