Oneonta resident Al Rubin, a member of Oneonta's Comprehensive Master Plan Revision Committee, discusses the wording of the current vision statement, which appears at the beginning of the comprehensive plan. Rubin is the chair of the steering committee tasked with creating the comprehensive plan. At right is committee member Seth Clark. (Parker Fish/AllOTSEGO.com)
By PARKER FISH • Special to AllOTSEGO.com
LEAF Director Julie Dostal reads the revised vision.
ONEONTA – The city's Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee agreed nothing should be left to interpretation in new plan: It met for an hour tonight to simply re-word the vision statement.
The vision statement summarizes the characteristics of the city, and what the future should be. In essence, the vision statement summarizes the entire comprehensive plans in a few short sentences.
"In my line of work, this is what we would call a mission statement, rather than a vision statement," said LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal, committee member.
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