Featured image: Batesville Mayor Rick Elumbaugh addresses the Leadership Batesville participants.
The Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Batesville program, presented by Citizens Bank, prepares emerging leaders to serve the community.
Through shared experiences and frequent interactions, participants engage in a nine-month curriculum inspired by the community-developed IMPACT Independence County strategic plan. (For more on IMPACT Independence County, click here.)
At the July session, participants learned about the vision of placemaking, which improves quality of life. Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of the community.
“Placemaking is an essential area of focus in the IMPACT Strategic Plan,” said BACC CEO Crystal Johnson. “By working to improve quality of life, placemaking creates opportunities to connect residents to the community and is a key piece to our economic development strategy.”
Participants met with leaders from the community, including Main Street Batesville, Batesville Downtown Foundation, Citizens Bank, and elected officials from the City of Batesville.
They concluded the session by attending the City of Batesville Advertising and Promotion Commission quarterly meeting, where they learned about our community’s visitor attraction strategies.
To learn more about Leadership Batesville and IMPACT, please visit batesvilleareachamber.com.
Batesville City Council member Tommy Bryant addresses the participants
Jeffrey Freiert and Ashley Engles with Citizens Bank / Images provided by Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce
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