Where should the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, put its focus and energy in the coming year, and what are appropriate matters for the group to consider?
Members of the quasi-governmental economic development group spent the majority of their last regular meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 2, discussing the organization’s purposes and goals as well as expectations for the content of group discussions.
The goalsetting was a planned part of the agenda, but the conversation about expectations was added as “new business,” in response to a discussion during the January meeting in which Marianne MacQueen made comments deemed inappropriate by other YSDC members.
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What does the community need? What do residents want? What’s best for Yellow Springs?
Those were some of the underlying questions threading through the discussion by members of the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, during their first meeting of the year, Tuesday, Jan. 12, held through the online Zoom website.
Members of the quasi-governmental group, which includes representatives from the Village, the Township, the schools and Antioch College, spent a large portion of their January meeting looking back over their activities since starting up last year and considering how they might move forward in 2021.
“Lessons learned” is how YSDC President Abel framed the conversation, particularly in terms of the group’s biggest project, the sale of the former firehouse on Corry Street.
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