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Consultant outlines Owasso economic development strategic plan with finance, outreach and tourism goals
Summary
Consultant Shelley Wheeler presented an Economic Development Strategic Plan for Owasso that recommends strengthening city finances, improving public education about how services are funded, targeting industries for attraction and retention, and exploring a small tourism-promotion entity; the plan includes one-year tasks, champions and a six-month accountability phase.
Shelley Wheeler, the consultant the city engaged to lead its economic development strategic plan, told the Owasso City Council on Thursday that her team’s work moved from assessment to planning and is now in a six-month implementation phase aimed at ensuring follow-through.
Wheeler said the assessment included interviews with a broad cross-section of local stakeholders and research into Owasso’s local economy, and that the planning session produced consensus on four three-year goals: strengthen the city’s financial resources, engage and inform the public about how services are funded, identify and realign target industries with regional partners, and create an entity to promote tourism in Owasso. “The assessment phase is just exactly what it sounds like,” Wheeler said, explaining that interviews and research informed the…
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