14 - City Council Strategic Plan

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Item No. 14 TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem & City Council FROM: Grayson Path, City Manager Rob Vine, Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: City Council Strategic Plan DATE: January 9, 2023 BACKGROUND: The City Council met in June 2022 for the purpose of identifying a Strategic Plan made up of a Vision, Mission Statement and Goals for the City of Paris. This Strategic Plan is intended to guide the City in the development and implementation of its fiscal budget for the next ten years, with the flexibility of knowing that future City Councils will review and amend as needed to keep this Strategic Plan relevant and effective. To complete this project, the City hired a consultant who assisted in the formation of the Vision, Mission Statement and Goals, and then subsequently advised on the formation of action items, which was to be completed by the City Manager following the City Council retreat. STATUS OF ISSUE: The City Manager convened a meeting with Mayor Portugal, Mayor Pro Tem Hughes, and Assistant City Manager Vine to review the Vision, Mission Statement and Goals produced from the City Council retreat and to develop the final Strategic Plan, complete with Action Items. Goals are implemented via action items, the formation of which was the next step after the June 2022 City Council retreat. The intent is for goals to last years while action items under these goals are produced, considered and completed on a more regular basis. It was agreed that the best method was to take the action items identified in the FY22/23 Budget and incorporate those under the Strategic Plan's goals. When reviewing the goals produced at the City Council retreat and the FY22/23 budgeted items as identified in the City Manager's Executive Summary, it was discovered that they were much aligned with great overlap, as will be seen in the attached Resolution and Strategic Plan.