- These and think of nature themes and maybe this is
a contest in the schools or something like that
to make images of nature that would
make a great crosswalk.
And this was another idea of
identifying it as you're driving into town
and you're crossing over a crosswalk that says Reedsburg.
It's welcoming you into the community
and connecting your visitors into you.
So those are some ideas that we think that you could
go ahead and get started with.
The other thing is that we
think that you could actually
work with your Historical Society right now
and actually work to get an app
that could give you and your community
and visitors a tour of your historic buildings
in town as well as the local artwork and
the temporary artwork that ends up popping up around town.
We think that would be really great to try
to work on and do right now.
And that's it for me.
(applause)
- This illustration just is about
a common situation we often find ourselves in.
And we mentioned it earlier, that you have a lot of groups
doing a lot of stuff.
And you may all be traveling in different directions.
Somebody sometimes can come along and say,
"This is where we're gonna go, people."
And it's the big idea or the mover and shaker
or the loudest voice in the room or town
and they try and drag
everybody who's going in different directions
along with their vision.
And then we say okay.
We've come up with some sort of vision,
some group has or whatever.
Now we want everybody to buy in.
So you got all these people who have different missions,
different purpose or whatever
and they're being kind of drug along
and they may be going with you,
but they're a drag,
going in that direction.
Cause when I hear the phrase, buy in,
it's hard for me not to spit.
Cause I'm a shared vision kind of person.
It's more work, it takes time.
And we talked earlier about
different groups getting together
like your different business associations,
retailers across downtown,
the different volunteer service organizations
getting together once or twice a year
and just talking about what we do.
And over time, because you love Reedsburg
and you want this town to be successful over time
and you know you're gonna have to change
some very fundamental things like
being more welcoming to different kinds of people,
so when all us white folks are dying,
there's people here.
Then you have employees for your companies.
You have these goals that are very precious to you.
You want this town to continue.
You want the Baraboo River to be a wonderful place
that many people in town can take advantage of
and people come here and spend their money
to take advantage of
and people want to move here and raise their children
and work in your industries and take advantage
of this one gigabyte stuff.
So you've got wonderful goals.
And as you talk about how each of you are going to,
in your different groups,
work towards those goals, you can align.
And then you're all pushing
that vision forward together.
And you get the sense of the accelerating
energy and speed.
That's your challenge.
(applause)
- [Steve] Well good evening everyone,
I'm Steve and I'm gonna talk a little bit about
leading Reedsburg's change and talk a little bit about
implementation and perhaps some next steps.
I'm gonna start us with what do the experts say?
And I've kinda paraphrased some work from
Professor John Cotter from Harvard University
who is probably a world-wide expert
on how do organizations and how do communities change.
And he's got a few steps
that I think all of us should think about
when we're involved in a change process
and trying to make this change happen,
the many ideas that you heard tonight.
The first step is establishing urgency.
Well, I would observe from the Reedsburg situation,
you've brought us here.
You've observed that there's a need to do something
in your community.
And I don't know if we'd call it urgency,
but there's really a strong interest
and so many people have expressed that and
coming out last night and tonight,
there's something happening here.
The second step, forming coalitions.
And you heard in some of the other presentations,
the importance of the many, many different groups
that are already involved in Reedsburg.
Particular to the planning and design process,
you've formed a coordinating committee
for community design.
That's one type of coordinating coalition.
Creating a vision, that's another really important step.
A collective vision, shared vision
for our community to move forward.
And collectively with you over the last six months,
maybe culminating the start tonight,
we created a vision for Reedsburg today.
The fourth step that Cotter talks about
in Leading Community Change is communicating the vision.
And there's a lot that you heard about tonight.
There's a lot to think about and to challenge and
to accept and refine in your own ways.
But the communication of a potential vision,
we started that tonight.
And through the many coalitions in your community,
we want and hope that you will now start working together.
There's a lot of work in communicating some of the
importance of the ideas that
the different coalitions agreed to.
So we look at some of these key steps in Leading Change.
Congratulations, the first four steps in Leading Change,
we've got some good traction
and we're real excited about that.
But certainly, maybe we've just begun in many ways.
So what's another key step in Leading Change?
Empowering action.
And I think with Miles' last slide,
there could be some pitfalls, too,
in the way change happens,
but we've learned that empowering action involves
folks with different characteristics.
Who has the passion?
Who's really excited about being involved
in the change in Reedsburg?
Who has the commitment?
You all showed up tonight.
This is an example of the types of folks involved in change,
those that are gonna commit some role in change.
And who has the ability and the skills?
Obviously, there's a lot of capability in this community
and we really did learn about that
and we want to match that up with some of the
potential ideas that you heard about tonight.
So we do have a signup sheet outside
when you walk down and look at our plans,
the very last board that we're going to have is
a signup sheet and this is maybe a small way of
starting the empowerment of action.
And then just a couple other pointers
on what the experts say.
Important in planning and creating some short-term wins.
That's why we worked hard to have both
short-term, long-term,
maybe some things that you can work on right away,
that you're excited about.
It's really important to use your
existing community groups that may already be lined up
with some of these initiatives.
If an existing group can't do what needs to be done,
maybe this is the time that we need to create
some new work groups.
One of our team members, as we introduced the other night,
Mariah introduced herself tonight.
Mariah has been a leader in Dark County and
Baileys Harbor as a result of a similar process
that we're doing with you that we did in Balieys Harbor.
They formed six or seven workgroups.
People just were drawn to start
working on some of these initiatives.
So really, tonight, some of our suggestions
are our way of getting you started.
And the importance of connections, the easier connections
and even some of the quick connections
to get you going on these projects.
And then the last step that we've put here,
from the experts is that
even when we start working on these,
you're gonna be producing a lot of new ideas
and there's going to be continuous change
in this community that you need to think about.
But we really think that there's an opportunity here
to make Reedsburg a leader in community placemaking.
(applause)
- [Will] Thank you, Steve.
Time check, we're what, half done?
- Yeah. - Okay.
I hope you all brought a power bar or something.
Nobody eats those anymore anyway.
No, this is the last slide and my job here
is to kind of bring this together.
And Steve gave us a really great rundown
of what the experts say,
what people who spend a lot of time talking about this
in meetings would say,
but I wanna talk to you briefly about
what it means for you as community members in Reedsburg.
Because today was a beginning,
but it's not even close to,
we got a lot of work to do so,
remember always that you brought us here.
You brought us here.
The work your community did
to prepare, and you prepared beautifully,
to bring the team here and get our input,
so thank you very much first, thank you.
(applause)
- [Will] Together, we have laid the foundation
for community change, but it's only a foundation.
So it's up to you, starting tomorrow,
I'm gonna let you take tonight off,
to build the Reedsburg that you want
on the foundation that's been laid here this weekend.
That's your charge.
And remember, small steps are always great.
Just keep walking.
This is not the kind of thing that gets done fast,
but as long as people continue
to take steps in the right direction,
Reedsburg's always gonna get better
and your community's always gonna be a place
that's a little bit better for you and your children
and your grand-children and your grandparents.
So keep that in mind.
Now, we will be around to help.
Right here, we have Jen Erickson, who's--
(applause)
- [Will] -- one of the very best in the business.
She's your Sauk County
UW Extension Community Development Educator,
and she's a resource for you so please lean on her.
Also, Todd Johnson.
(applause)
- Todd is a community development specialist.
He will be coming back to check up on ya
in about six months, okay?
So be ready.
But in the meantime, if you need anything,
give him a call too, he's here for you as well.
And Jenny and Todd
and the entire community vitality and placemaking team,
let's be honest, is here for ya.
And we can all, but especially Jenny and Todd,
can connect you to lots more resources from the UW system.
We have specialists in centers
that do urban and regional planning work,
that do landscape architecture,
community economic development and more.
So, if you have a question, if you think we can help,
it doesn't ever hurt to call and if we can't figure out
how to help ya, we can find somebody,
most of the time, who can.
So, I'm gonna turn it back over to Todd.
I thank you again and congratulations.
Have a great night.
(applause)
- So we can turn the lights back on.
I'm gonna fall asleep here.
So congratulations, you survived our presentation tonight.
Give yourselves a round of applause.
(applause)
- Alright.
So you saw a lot of pretty pictures
and heard a lot of talking
and so what does it all mean?
That's up to you.
What we've shown here are reflections of
what you told us, the type of future that you wanted to have
mixed in with some of our professional assistance
on how we might think that might be best served
and some ideas on how you might get there.
Now what we drew for you are not buildable documents.
These aren't engineering drawings.
These are only notions.
These are, again, first steps.
But they're steps that, I think, that reflect
what you told us your values were
and the kind of future that you hope to have.
I at least hope that's what you saw on this screen
because that's what we intended to do.
These are meant to be your ideas, not our ideas.
Our team members worked very hard on this
to try to be honest and make sure that this is truly
a Reedsburg design team.
Our folks are gonna be standing out in the hallway
and they're gonna be standing next to the drawings
and boards that they worked on.
They're gonna be there to answer your questions.
They're gonna be there to correct the drawings.
So if there are things on there that
you just say, "That doesn't make a lot of sense.
"Can you explain that to me?"
And if you can prove them wrong, please do,
cause they're gonna take notes and
we're gonna try and make some corrections on this.
Because I'm taking all of the information
that you've seen tonight.
There might be some edits
and then I'll put together a written document
that compiles all this information that you can have
and then you can put it in your bookcase,
you'll never look at it again.
But, the main thing is that
what you've seen is just the start, like Will said,
but we've given you some ideas of things that you can do
very simply as well,
things that don't require a lot of extra resources
or extra dollars that you can do and
start seeing some progress right away.
I really love this work.
I think it's a lot of fun because I love watching
what you guys do with this.
I come back in six months,
not just to check-up on you, but I wanna see
what amazing things you came up with.
Cause I'm always surprised, I'm always surprised.
We went to Grantsburg, we piloted this program in 2014.
Six months later, they already knocked out
half a dozen things.
We were in Baileys Harbor.
Only a few weeks later, they'd already transformed
their existing space that was adjacent to their library
into basically a full functioning community center.
A lot of times it's just very simple things,
just getting the right people to intersect
at the right time with a shared vision.
Does that make sense?
Okay, I hope you understand that and
this isn't meant to be rocket science.
It's meant to be what Reedsburg wants.
Does that make sense?
Okay, I hope so, okay good, phew.
Alright so with that,
I'm really tired of listening to myself talk.
I know our team is exhausted,
but they're also thrilled to death.
I'd like my team to, our team to please excuse themselves
and go out to the hallway
and stand next to your drawings
and we have some cameras that are gonna be
doing some interviews of folks
so please don't run away from
our team members when they have a camera
cause what they really are trying to do
is collect your opinions,
good or bad or ugly,
about what you thought of this process
and what you see tonight.
Because we have to explain to our bosses
what we did tonight.
So please, if you have one of our extension agents
with a camera come up to you to ask a few questions,
please be nice to them and give them
just a few minutes of your time.
If you have any other questions,
please direct them to the folks out in the hallway first.
If you have specific things for me,
I'm more than welcome to do my best.
Thank you again for your hospitality.
- [Agent] Don't forget to sign up.
- Oh yes, and I'm sorry.
Do not forget the signup.
That's a personal challenge out there to you guys tonight.
We have signup sheets out there to just write down your name
and some contact information and if what you see, you like
and you want to be a part of it,
please, please put your name on the dotted line.
We're not expecting you to sign your life away.
We just wanna know if you're interested in being
a part of this movement forward.
So with that, I think I'd like to excuse you all
and thank you so much
for your hospitality. - Todd, just one thing.
We videoed last night and tonight.
Somebody in the room,
who was it that mentioned to me, right here,
Last night, was out on Channel 11 today.
And I'm still waiting for some pictures
from Bill Chudy and we will put this one on,
but both of them will be on Channel 12
sometime on Monday, with the pictures and everything.
And also, the design Reedsburg team is going to receive
several copies of it, courtesy of the Reedsburg Utility.
- [Will] Thank you, thank you very much.
(applause)
- So again, thank you again to the community of Reedsburg.
You know who you are.
The folks who brought us here, to Jenny Erickson and crew,
you guys have been fantastic.
Thank you to our moms and dads over the weekends,
that help letting us stay at your place.
So again, have a wonderful evening.
Please go ask them questions.
Thank you.
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