Steele, ND

We would like to share our community vision with you.  It is a combination of the 1999 Steele Strategtic plan and the Horizon community surveys you completed last fall.  Please blog your comments and suggestions.  Also about how consider volunteering for one of the committees?  Many hands make light work.

 

Steele, North Dakota

Strategic Plan Summary 

Vision Statement:   

An ideal place to shop, live, and raise a family and a clean, safe, prosperous, and growing community that welcomes new residents provides excellent shopping and leisure-time activities, offers choices of quality employment and housing, and maintains the highest level of services, including health, education, and public infrastructure to all its citizens.   

 Goal #1:  Mobilize local assets in business and tourism development to help ourselves and each other and to provide access to services for everyone living and working in the community.  

Action Steps:      

Develop a ‘Shop Steele Campaign” to keep money and jobs in the community and demonstrate other benefits to the community when shopping is done locally.       

Develop promotional material, advertisements, brochures, and presentations to be distributed to surrounding communities and used at local and special community events.       

Partner and work with the North Dakota State University Extension Services, the Tourism Committee, and the Economic Development Business Sector Committee to identify needed services and retail business to meet the needs of citizens and to help build and retain community assets.        

Study the feasibility to develop a small industrial park that would serve the needs of new industries and businesses.          

Partner with the North Dakota Department of Commerce, Lewis and Clark Regional Development Council, North Dakota State University Extension Services, and the Community Economic Development-Ag Committee to discuss agricultural-related and value-added expansion and development opportunities from dairy operations and irrigating to organic farming.        

 Coordinate and partner with available resources in developing a business-to-business training program to help people be successful and to build leadership potential among all ages and income levels.       

Offer adults education classes in partnership with the Department of Public Instruction and the North Dakota University System to help people obtain computer skills for job placement or retrain to ensure skills are meeting job requirements.        

Get the word out about the quality of birding in the community so more people will travel to Steele.       

Communicate to potentially new businesses the benefits the community offers to help facilitate the creation of more and better jobs.     

Goal Responsibility: 

 Community Promotion Committee in coordination with the Economic Development Business Sector Committee, the Economic Development-Ag Sector Committee and the Tourism Committee. Expected Goal Outcome(s):      

Our economy is diversified and we have quality jobs and a trained and educated work force.        

Shopping and buying opportunities have expanded and essential services are readily available to everyone living and working in the community.      

Keeping money in the community is helping everyone and people and business are benefitting from the development of leadership and technology skills.      

The community has teamed up to get the word out about local business and services and more people are buying at home.  

More leaders are stepping to the plate and new people are getting involved in recruiting and training leaders in business development.     

Business owners are mentoring new business owners and passing on important skills to be successful.  

 Goal #2:  Provide safe and affordable housing choices for all residents to ensure basic needs are met at all income levels. 

 Action Steps:       

Develop a housing study and work with state and local resources to identify immediate housing needs and to create affordable housing for low-income people.  

Explore the development of affordable single-and multi-family housing so shelter is available for everyone living and working in the community.     

Capitalize on expanding community assets to include available housing for people choosing to live in Steele and commute to work in surrounding communities. 

 Goal Responsibility:  Housing Committee Expected Goal Outcome(s):  

Available housing in Steele is meeting the needs of all families at all income levels. Ø      More people are building and owning their own homes. 

Federal, state, and local officials are working with the community to develop a basic resource in meeting shelter and housing needs for the well being of everyone.     

Goal #3:  Provide and maintain safe, adequate, and efficient public services, activities, and facilities to ensure basic resources are available for all people living and working in the community.                                           Action Steps:       

Explore options to develop and expand the Community Center as a community asset and facility that provides space for businesses, special activities and public services for everyone.       

Develop an in-door movie theatre and disc golf course to ensure different activities are available for all ages and income levels. 

Partner with local, state, and federal entities, from our local schools to the State Historical Society and USDA to leverage resources in providing and maintaining public access to services and facilities. 

Develop and structure the local food pantry to maintain continued operation and help people meet their urgent needs.  

Start a local ‘Students Against Destructive Decision’ (SADD) Chapter to help youth and families deal with conflict and to face hard issues. 

Form a welcome committee to greet and welcome new families of all different cultures to the community and to provide a list of resources where people can go to get help if needed.  

Goal Responsibility: 

Community and City Coordination Committee  

Expected Goal Outcome(s): 

Community assets are strengthened and the historical value of the Community Center is maintained. 

More people are donating food and other basic essentials to the food pantry. 

Access to services and assistance is available to everyone in the community.

Poverty is being addressed at the grass roots level and the number of partnerships, volunteers, and leaders continues to grow through comprehensive effort to provide basic services.  

Everyone has access to affordable leisure activities and entertainment which helps maintain the well being of every community member at every age and income level.