Village visions and plans

Marc Jense

Village coordinator/manager

Municipality of Heerenveen20 september 2010

Presentation:

1. Village management

2. Village visions

3. Village plans and village agenda

Roles:• The official organization• The Court of Mayor and Aldermen• The town council• De plaatselijke belangen (organized local

interest groups)

Village visionBottom-up ….. top-down

•A clear rural policy to optain grants

•A new policy paper for the villages/rural areas

•Katlijk – success (new plans from the village were a starting point for new developments)

•Mildam – translation problems– government officials didn’t understand the demand

motivation

Village visionProject

• project-based approach / projectmanager

• Support from Doarpswurk

• Standard lay-out , examples and subjects

• A number of joint meetings

1. Start (2006)

2. Different topics (social, welfare en economy)

3. Presentation (Autumn 2007)

Village visionResults

•11 different village vision

•The village vision is the property of the village

•The result of cooperation of many villagers

•Each village has it own dynamics

A village vision is:How it works

•Research / policy information

•More social cohesion

•Change of opinions

•New dynamics

•Discussion about there own community

•The people are proud off their village and municipality

• A strong instrument for political influence

Village plans / Village agendaBudget

•For implementation of the village plans there is € 400.000 as booster money available in 4 years.

•€ 200.000 for the villages divided by number of inhabitants

•€ 200.000 joint villages projects

•€ 200.000 additional administrative capacity

•The aim is a total project result of € 1.2 million

Village plans / Village agendaGoals

450 goals

•Villagers (41%)

•Villagers in cooperation with the municipality (32%)

•Villagers and others (11%)

•Municipality(15%)

•Others( - )

policy Implementation

demand

Village managementVillage Vision

FlowchartVillage vision

Database11 33

22

The board of local interest groups and their village vision

The council

The official organisation

The Court of Mayor and Aldermen

The board of another local interest groups and their village vision

Village visions and village plans

A clear conceptual analysis

Respect

Passionate people

Customization / Taylor made

What is th

e problem /

who’s problem is

it

Do we discuss the same

problem

Visible success

The process