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At the Strategic Planning Session in 2007,
these projects were prioritized for needed
improvement to our community:
1) Recruiting/Building a Vet Clinic
2) Expand or replace grocery store
3) Fill the open spaces on Main St.
4) Build Sr. Housing
5) Main Street Revitalization - Affiliate application on hold.
Projects well underway by others are:
- Cowboy Hall of Fame
- Value-Added Agriculture
- Moving the Museum to the new location on US Hwy 2
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New ideas are:
- Securing & moving the John Deer tractor collection to the highway
- Developing trails & historic markers at and around the Lewis & Clark park and historic bridge
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RBEG - $ 32,200 grant
for Vet Clinic
Monies
received from business donations, Enterprise
Community, Western Bank of Wolf Point and Horizons Foundation
Balance as of April 2008 $8,500 |
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2004
Approx 1050 hrs. $26,382
2005 Approx 2250 hrs. $56,071
2006 Approx 2080 hrs. $52,121
2007 over 1000 hrs.
$25,155
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• Pres. Duane Kurokawa – Exec. Vice President,
Western Bank of Wolf Point
• V.P. Tom Olding - Laboratory Director, Northeast Montana
Health Services
• Sec/Tres. Marvin Presser - Owner and General
Manager of High Plains Motors, Inc,
• Keith Bryan - Owner of Bryans and long history of community leadership.
• Vicky Delger - Commissioner for Roosevelt County
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Mark Sansaver, Director of Enterprise Community of Fort Peck Tribes.
• Lee Redekopp - AgLand Co-op Manager & Pres. of WP Chamber of C&A board.
• Joe Paine - Principal of WPHS
• Linda Nygaard - CFO, Northeast Montana Health Services
Executive Director:
• Clyta M. Dillon, BS MSU, MBA
NYU, Roosevelt County Study
Comm’r, & retired Group
Product Manager, GTE Telops Headquarters
(now Verizon)
Representing
over 300 years of
business experience & leadership!
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| Our Current Project
Acting as General Partner and Developer of a multi-unit housing project, MVDC is preparing to apply for Tax Credits to finance much-needed independent living facilities with apartments for seniors.
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Future Site of Vet Clinic Image 1
Future Site of Vet Clinic Image 2
| Veternarian Clinic Construction
June
15, 2007 -- Construction of improvements
has begun on the 2 acre property that
MVDC has purchased on Hwy #2 and is
reserving for the future Veterinary
Clinic. Recruitment continues. The
property is 1/2 mi West of Wolf Point
on Hwy 2.
If
you know of any veterinarian that might
be interested, please contact Clyta
Dillon at 392-5551 or at CDillon@nemont.net.
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| Veterinary
Clinic
Granted
RBEG funds for land & mortar for
development of a Vet facility.
Continuing new recruitment campaign.
2 Acre site has been purchased for clinic
& more
repairs and upgrades on the existing
buildings are scheduled for May, 2008.
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Residential
Clean-Up of Wolf Point
Led
effort to identify residential sites
needing clean-up and in violation of
city ordinances. Issued 70 letters of
clean-up encouragement. City council
action was initiated on worst violations.
Two demolitions have been completed.
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| Dental Office
Applied for and received approval as a National Health Service Corps site sponsor, allowing dentists and other health care providers to apply for student loan repayments in return for practicing here. Local vacancies are now listed on Nat'l Health Service Corps website.
With EC, Chamber, Tribes & Rep. Campbell petitioned MT Board of Dentistry to modify rules in credentialing for dentistry.
Secured essential start-up equipment for dental office and recruited a dentist, who in turn, purchased & remodeled the building. (Wolf Point Dental, Myriam Greene, DDS) Opened Oct. '05
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Facilitated implementation of Great
Northern Development Corp (GNDC)
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Donated the Small Business Incubator
building to GNDC
• Retained MT Highway Dept. offices
in Wolf Point.
• Retained UPS hub in Wolf Point
• Secured dentist for Wolf Point
• Initial planning and public opinion gathering for Revitalization on Main Street
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• MVDC organizes and lead a community
strategy annual meeting. Updates on
all community projects were given with
questions and answers from the audience,
and projects were prioritized for the
meeting year. In 2006 and 2007 the events
was televised on the local TV Channel. In 2008, the affordable senior housing projects was launched, and a new list of ideas was generated for the county - led planning project.
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