Officials are ready to process information from four earlier public meetings across Douglas County into a new economic development plan for the community.

The Lawrence-Douglas County Economic Development Board on Thursday named Baldwin City Administrator Larry Paine, former Lawrence banking executive Jean Milstead and Bob Walters, former Lawrence city commissioner, to develop a draft plan.

The new plan will replace one adopted in 1994 with Horizon 2020, the city-county long-range planning guide.

“We’ve gone into this thing thinking the goals are still the same, but that the strategies will change based on what has changed in the community since 1994,” said board member Shirley Martin-Smith.

The plan has three goals:

 Increase job growth.

 Increase the tax base.

 Increase “livable wages.”

To prepare for the new plan, the board met earlier this year with residents in Baldwin, Eudora, Lawrence and Lecompton. The economic development desires varied from town to town  Lawrence residents talked about developing research industries, for example, while Eudora residents discussed improving their downtown and retail opportunities.

“In Lecompton, they mainly want a restaurant,” Martin-Smith said.

The three-member subcommittee will try to combine the disparate visions into one planning document. Jim Martin, board chairman, said the group didn’t have a deadline, but he expected it to produce a document in short order.

“We’ve done the hard work, the data collection,” he said. “I would think it’s not an arduous task.”