On Wednesday, April 14, Shadyside community members will meet with ms consultants’ Director of Funding, Economic Development, and Strategy, Dax Norton. Mr. Norton will lead the community members through an Economic Reinvention & Strategic Direction Road Map Visioning Session.

Based on his years of involvement in municipal management and economic development leadership in small, rural communities, Mr. Norton worked with colleagues at ms consultants to develop a Municipal Operations process. His team utilizes this process to guide small groups of community leaders through Strategic Direction Road Map visioning sessions. These sessions ultimately develop a comprehensive growth strategy focused on creating policy that will invite the private market to begin to make new investments in the community. The visioning session is an intense exercise using unique collaboration tools to bring community leaders together to find common goals and use those common goals to develop action items. Those action items are used to develop a comprehensive plan to advise and guide local government officials and civic leaders.

This process will involve no more than 35 local leaders and student leadership representation from the high school. The process will take 3 to 6 months to complete.