Advance Plans Committee
Summary of Meeting
9:00 am, August 27, 2007
Attendance
Committee and MAPC Members: 	Elizabeth Bishop, Bud Hentzen, Ron Marnell, John 
McKay, Mitch Mitchell, Darrell Downing, Hoyt Hillman
MAPD staff:  	Christy Askew, Stephen Banks, Dave Barber, Scott Knebel, John Schlegel
Other:	Irene Hart, Suzie Ahlstrand 

Discussion Summary

1.	The Advance Plans Committee approved the minutes of the July 26, 2007 Committee 
meeting.

2.	Suzie Ahlstrand provided an overview of the Visoneering Wichita initiative, highlighting 
the level of community participation to date in the process. Over 16,000 people have 
directly participated in this initiative. Suzie explained that 14 strategic alliances involving 
more that 500 people have been formed to focus on implementing particular aspects of 
the December 2004 Visioneering Plan.  In fact, a group will be convening this week to 
discuss updating an Arts and Cultural Plan for the region.  Suzie mentioned that a re-
gathering or verification process is planned in 2009 to ensure the December 2004 
document remains current and relevant. Bringing people to the table and out of their 
‘silos’ is key to communication. The Committee agreed that the Visioneering Wichita 
organization would be a key partner in generating community input and feedback into an 
update to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Comprehensive Plan.

3.	Committee members reviewed the summary evaluation sheet prepared by staff that 
itemizes the ‘land use planning-related’ elements contained in the December 2004 
Visioneering document, and assesses the level of consistency/similarity with related 
elements contained in the Comprehensive Plan. Following this review, there was general 
agreement amongst the Committee members that the current Wichita-Sedgwick County 
Comprehensive Plan is consistent with the ‘land use planning-related’ elements contained 
in the December 2004 Visioneering document. All agreed that it was important that the 
Comprehensive Plan set priorities for the City and County CIP projects.

4.	The next meeting of the Advance Plans Committee will be held on September 12th from 
9-11:00 a.m. to continue discussions on the desired focus of the next Comprehensive 
Plan.

5.	Meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.