The Rural Partners Board, a group of government, civic and community leaders from across Central and Western Illinois, held their quarterly board meeting in Taylorville today at the CTI conference room.   The meeting was both to conduct business as well as take a tour of the town with many community leaders participating.

Taylorville's own Dick Breckenridge, a member of the Rural Partners board, chaired the meeting and told Regional Radio News before the proceedings, that the board chose Taylorville to have their meeting because they wanted to hear about the town's economic development growth.

During the meeting portion of the day, several Taylorville community leaders spoke including Mayor Bruce Barry; Dick Adams, Executive Director of the Christian County Economic Development Corporation; Cindy Frisina, president of Heartland Development Partners; and Bobbie Dean, CEO of CTI.

Following the business portion of the meeting, CTI hosted a tour of their new 6-thousand square foot facility they moved into last year.   They then were put on a couple of buses and were given a tour of the town, then lunch at Nesty's where they heard remarks from Greater Taylorville Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Linda Allen and Small Town Taylorville Committee chair Steve Craggs.

The Taylorville tour by the Rural Partners board, is one of several communities they've held meetings at to tour communities that are experiencing economic development growth in Central and Western Illinois.