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Evansville was 182nd out of 189 metro areas in the 2012 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The city’s placement was based on data from 546 surveys in the metro area, defined as four Indiana counties and two Kentucky counties.

City leaders have also been collecting community input. Since August, Leadership Evansville and the office of Mayor Lloyd Winnecke conducted a series of meetings called Evansville VOICE, a process aimed at receiving citizen feedback about the community and its goals. There have been about 25 meetings, attended by more than 2,000 people.

EVANSVILLE — The last few information-gathering sessions are being scheduled for Evansville VOICE — the citizen-driven community vision program coordinated by Leadership Evansville and Mayor Lloyd Winnecke.

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Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke and Leadership Evansville Executive Director Lynn Miller-Pease announce more visioning sessions for VOICE that include partnerships with local educational institutions, beginning with Ivy Tech Community College. VOICE is Evansville’s community-wide, citizen-driven vision process that allows community members to share their ideas, hopes and visions for Evansville’s preferred future.

Evansville Courier Press
By John Martin
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
 
Organizers of Evansville VOICE — a citizen-driven effort to shape a vision for the city — said they are pleased with the process so far.
 
Three sessions have been held, and four others are scheduled. But there will be more.
 
"This is only the first round. We're getting ready to set up the next couple of months of meetings," said Lynn Miller-Pease, director of Leadership Evansville.

EVANSVILLE — In Abraham Brown's vision of the city's future, Evansville has streamlined public transportation, jet passenger planes flying out from behind a skyline of tall buildings and a vibrant Downtown with a population as remarkable for its colorful diversity as for its uniform thinness.

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -

The second of Evansville's Voice community wide visioning sessions was held on Monday night.

Dozens of people turned out at Helfrich Park Stem Academy on West Maryland Street to voice their ideas for the city's future on Monday night.

Community leaders and the mayor were there to listen.

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Mayor Lloyd Winnecke and Lynn Miller-Pease of Leadership Evansville have announced a new initiative, called VOICE, that will give citizens a stronger voice in the future of our community.

The series of brainstorming sessions will be open to anyone that would like to attend and the ideas that come out of the sessions will be condensed into possible action steps.

Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke says he is giving his constituents a bigger voice. Mayor Winnecke and Leadership Evansville Executive Director Lynn Miller-Pease are teaming up for the "Voice" initiative. It aims to get more people talking and involved with the future of Evansville.