[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Wichita Falls (TX) adjust to reductions at Sheppard Air Force Base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Target 3: Vision 20-20

Texoma's Home Page (KFDX TV-3 News, Wichita Falls, TX)
January 30, 2014

On the heels of a 2005 decision to move medical training from  
Sheppard Air Foce Base, the City of Wichita Falls conducted a study  
to try to diversify and develop the local economy in case more cuts  
came in the future.

In 2005 as the result of a Base Realignment and Closure Decision, the  
Department of Defense announced it was moving the medical group at  
Sheppard Air Force Base to San Antonio. Sheppard lost about 400  
instructors and 7,000 students annually. On the heels of that  
decision, the City of Wichita Falls conducted a study to try to  
diversify and develop the local economy in case more cuts came in the  
future. The result was the Vision 20-20 plan, a guideline for growing  
the economic base by the year 2020.

Karen Gagne with the City's Community Development was involved in the  
initial planning. She says, "It was a way take something that was a  
negative and turn it into something that could long term benefit our  
community."

The year it was adopted was tough nationwide. 2008 was the height of  
national economic downturn. Despite that, projects and plans  
continued. At the heart of many of them was Downtown Wichita Falls.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.texomashomepage.com/story/d/story/target-3- 
vision-20-20/30026/GOgY7P3p8U2yZhR5hKAh8g

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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