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Paris and Lamar County Community -Wide Strategic Plan STRATEGY 7 Cultivate cooperation ad coordination between and among governing bodies (City, County, School Districts, Water Districts, etc.) and civic organizations. PRESENT STATUS Silos, lack of clear vision and goals for city, county, schools, etc. Everybody is doing their own thing with little or no communication. Cross purposes, mistrust, rumors, ill will, overlap, duplication, inefficiency and waste. Lack of progress or growth, and decreasing services with rising costs and declining quality of service and inability to respond to customer needs, requirements and expectations. PREFERRED FUTURE STATE Shared priorities and goals for the community and region. ACTION STEPS Improve communication and collaboration between and among City, County, water boards, school districts, other key community leaders and stakeholders. 1. Establish quarterly meetings 2. Invite key leaders for local "State of the Union" 3. Build cooperation and shared future goals 4. PEDC to lead efforts to convene government agencies and water boards 5. PJC to take lead role in the cooperative initiative 6. Establish quarterly meeting with all school district business managers 7. Identify opportunities to collaborate on cooperative purchasing power OWNERS & STAKEHOLDERS City, County, key community leaders and stakeholders, all cities in county, water boards. PROGRESS MEASURES 1. Short-term success is if actual leaders come to meetings. 2. Future success is common goals shared among multiple organizations. 3. School business managers to attend coordinating meetings. 4. Write memorandum of understanding among school districts. 5. Write one RFP utilizing two school districts to accomplish needed task. Respectfully submitted, Steve Gilbert Paris Economic Development Corporation First Draft for Discussion Only 8 of 8 January 2011