Vision Statement

Our Shared Vision: Cowley County in 2020 has been developed to show what citizens plan for Cowley County to look and feel like in the year 2020. Here, you can review the statement and give us your feedback.

Vision 20/20 Factsheet

The Vision 20/20 Fact Sheet will explain: 

•     1. What is Community Visioning?
•     2. How Does Community visioning Work?
•     3. Who is Sponsoring Vision 20/20?
•     4. What Are the Benefits of Visioning?
•     5. How Can I Get Involved?

Focus Area Teams

Work has now started in the five areas of the Community Plan with their Focus Teams. Each Team is building up the people and partners that will be putting together the steps to achieving the strategies. Each of the Teams is being lead by Team Captains. These Captains, along with their dedicated volunteers, are key to successful implementation of the strategies.

Team Captains
Culture	Connie Kimsey & Sarah Werner	Cowley County Tourism Alliance
Economy	Leroy Alsup	Cowley First
Health	David Brazil	City-Cowley County Health Department
People	David Smith	Community National Bank
Place	Sid Regnier	Arkansas City

Vision 20/20 Task Force

Who are the volunteers from around Cowley County that are assisting with this process? 

Task Force Members
Leroy Alsup	Cowley County
Dolly Bonfy	USD 465	Honorary Chair
Leroy Alsup	Cowley First	Staff
Dave Galliart	Stonegate Mortgage	Chairman
Sue Hogue	Student - Southwestern College
Phil Jarvis	Winfield City Commission and Southwestern College	Honorary Chair
Nancy Johnston	Kansas Gas Service
Frieda Kahle	Kansas Department of Commerce
Erv Knocke	Retired - United Agency	Task Master
Pam Moore	Legacy Foundation
Sandi Murphy	Mid-Kansas Community Action Program, Inc.
Sid Regnier	Retired - Cowley College	Honorary Chair
Lonnie Stieben	Southern Kansas Telephone	Vice Chairman

 

Community Endorsements

The community organizations/boards have endorsed the Community Plan:

• Arkansas City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
• Arkansas City Commission
• City of Winfield
• Cowley County Commission
• Cowley County Mental Health
• Legacy Foundation
• Winfield Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
• Winfield Non-Profit Council
• Winfield Main Street
• Winfield Rotary Club

Vision 20/20- Cowley County Community Strategic Plan 2010 Renewal

Download the 2010 Strategic Plan Renewal

Community Strategic Plan

The Community Strategic Plan for Vision 20/20 has been adopted by Cowley First. The work of many volunteers and task force members has gone into the next step of developing this plan for the vision for all of Cowley County. Here, you can read and review all the goals with objectives and action plans. If you have any comments or would like to become a volunteer, please let us know.

Select a focus area for specific strategies and objectives:

• People
• Economy
• Place
• Health
• Culture

 

The Cowley County Community Plan

The strategy statements for the  Cowley County Community Plan have been adopted by the Cowley First Advisory Committee.  In this first step of identifying strategy statements, for purposes of organizing resources and initiating action for the future, our five year plan is organized around five broad community interests: People, Economy, Place, Health and Culture.  Strategies in each area are preceded by ideas and concerns we heard from the community. Many strategies in these five areas are closely interrelated, and their implementation will require extensive collaborative action. (May 2006)

As sponsors of 20/20 Community Visioning, members of Cowley First have listened to the community. The themes our community widely agrees upon have become the main points of our plan.  Many of the community’s ideas about how we can achieve our dreams are reflected in the plan’s detail.  More ideas will surely be discovered along the way.

The members of the Vision 20/20 Task Force have been privileged to work on this document. We sense that history is being made, and we hope that our purposeful attempts to include many voices in the planning will lead to many voices being part of the activity to come.