North Newton City Administrator Brad Harris told city council members one of the city’s strategic-plan goals that has to do with land development will be a year-long process. They want to identify and rank available land for development. “It’s an ongoing process,” Harris said. “We are starting to talk to some landowners, and we’re starting to get some interest to start talking about what that looks like, so we’re pretty pleased that they’re coming forward to us and beginning this conversation, so we’re going to keep working away at that throughout the year and see which pieces of land are available for development in town and what lies just outside of town.” He also talked about another strategic-plan goal for this month. “Looking into March, the two items that were initially put here were to develop opportunities for the city council and staff to collaborate with community organizations, and we kind of talked about packaging that into our work session, re-exploring those, so that’s something we’ll talk about later this month,” Harris said. North Newton Mayor Ron Ratzlaff asked Harris to provide a strategic plan chart quarterly to the council.
Source: Harvey County Now
