Longtime president and CEO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership John Sampson has announced he will step down from the organization.
The Regional Partnership was founded in 2006 and serves as a collaborative body bringing stakeholders from all of northeast Indiana’s 11 counties together to focus on the best ways to build, market and sell the region to businesses and talent.
Sampson has been in his role as president and CEO since the very beginning of the partnership, playing a major role in the area’s “Road to One Million” plan. He has also overseen the partnership’s Vision 2030 plan, focusing on regional efforts to increase per capita income, population growth and educational attainment over the next ten years.
GARRETT â Plans are moving forward to open the Garrett City Pool this summer.
Work has begun this week to dismantle the large, blue slide at the city pool in order for a new slide to be installed this spring, according to Parks Superintendent Eric Mossberger.
The city is taking applications for lifeguards and will train them for the season, with the mindset that the pool will be open this year. Applications can be made at City Hall or on the cityâs webpage.
City Planner Milton Otero told the Board of Works Tuesday the 2021 Boundary and Annexation Survey paper maps have been updated and submitted. Savings from 2019 and 2020 Community Crossings Matching Grants will be submitted as a change order to the Indiana Department of Transportation, reflecting new amounts.
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Art of the comeback
Budgetary support can rally region post-pandemic
Arts Advocacy Week is this week at the Statehouse. This is to let northeast Indiana s state senators and representatives know that representatives of Indiana Arts Advocates are asking them to maintain funding for the Indiana Arts Commission at $4 million in the next biennial budget.
As leaders of Arts United, Greater Fort Wayne, Inc., the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and the Downtown Improvement District, we appreciate their advocacy efforts because we know how important arts, culture and quality of life are to all 92 counties of the Hoosier State, including the 11 counties of northeast Indiana.
News that John Sampson will step down as president and CEO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership is an opportunity to recognize the invaluable .