That the six-county Bootheel area of Southeast Missouri achieves and sustains prosperity which provides above-average incomes, career opportunities for all its residents, and a family-oriented quality of life.

     We will unite as a region to identify and promote the area’s many advantages to prospective employers. We will promote the good and services of existing businesses inside and outside the region. We will encourage improvement of area conditions which may impede this economic growth.

• Create and strengthen job opportunities throughout the region
• Promote regional cooperation and communication among cities, counties and businesses to facilitate the growth of regional businesses dealing with each other.
• Create and maintain a positive attitude and identity for the region which result in increased awareness of its advantages by internal and external audiences.
• Identify and secure additional funding through 2009.
• Identify infrastructure and educational/training needs which impede economic development and form strategies to address their improvements by 2007.
• Develop working relationships with four surrounding states toward a greater mutual cooperation in regional development activities.
• Develop strategies to promote greater state and federal support of this regional development effort by 2008 and implement them in 2008.