- 1. Lessons in Leadership and Sustainability from Greensburg
Kansas Laura Brown Community Development Educator Crawford County
UW Extension July 13, 2010
2. Wisconsin leadership Academy trip to Greensburg June 6-11,
2010 3. 4. 5. Kiowa County Extension Office 6. Public Square 7.
Leadership in Public Square Process
- Training our next generation of leaders is key
We need to build a passion for our community that becomes
instilled in the people here. We already have a community of 850
leaders- because they invested in staying here. Leadership is about
enabling people to perform difficult tasks. Weve enabled each
other. Weve worked through this because weve had the passion. 8. 9.
GREENSBURG VISION 2017
- Blessed with a unique opportunity to create a strong community
Devoted to family Fostering business Working together for future
generations
10. Goals
- Partnerships for Development Create a County Development Board
with representation from all four sectors which will work to foster
growth
- Community Conversations Utilize the Public Square Steering
Committee to actively engaged sector activities and coordinate
community events
- New Parks & RecreationCreate a facility incorporating an
indoor pool, fitness center, meeting rooms and office space for
staff to implement a comprehensive cultural events program
- Can Do Attitude Use organizations from the four sectors to
reinforce a sense of community and a can do attitude...
- Youth LeadershipDevelop a program of youth & adults working
together on leadership awareness & involvement, and have a
visible youth presence in all planning sectors engaging as many
youth as possible
11. The Sustainability Decision Only a crisisactual or
perceivedproduces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions
that are taken depend onthe ideas that are lying around . That, I
believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing
policies, to keep them alive and available
untilthepoliticallyimpossible becomespoliticallyinevitable . Milton
Friedman 12. What Does Sustainability Mean in Greensburg? We have
learned that sustainability does not just mean green building. It
is time and energy, lifestyle changes, and education, building
relationships. This means we are focused not on right now or two
years from now, but 20 years from now. We are planning for our
grandchildren. 13. 14. LEED Certified Buildings 15. Greensburg City
Hall 16. Leadership Notes from the City Administrator
- Patience, persistence, vision, and communication were
essential. True leadership happens when the critics are loud and
you are still making progress.
- Our biggest challenge was not the short term disaster relief
but the longer term work that we are doing now that will affect the
community for many years to come.
17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Kiowa County Hospital 22. 23. Greensburg
Greentown 24. 25. 26. 27. Economic Development Scott Brown Kiowa
County United 28. 29. 30. Greensburg Sunchips Business Incubator
31. 32. On Rebuilding Green
- We said, if the city and the county are going to do it, lets be
a leader in the business community and rebuild LEED certified.
- This really helped to rebuild relationships in the community
that had been shattered before..It is critical that we did what we
did and that we continue what were doing.
- -Mike Estes, BTI John Deere Greensburg
33. Future Site of Kiowa County Commons 34. Challenges
- Housing- ongoing big issue
- Housing and services for seniors
- Attracting and keeping essential services- eye care, pharmacy,
dental
- Community health- food access?
35. Lessons on Rebuilding After a Disaster
- How do we generate community without tragedy?Tornado caused a
mental shift
- You plan to plan so you know how to make decisions.
- Positive conversation changes the world.
36. http://fyi.uwex.edu/crawfordcommunity 37. Questions?
- Crawford County University of Wisconsin Extension