TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM:
John Jalili, Interim City Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Strategic Plan Update (Interim City Manager Jalili).
RECEIVE REPORT
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council receive this report.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There is no fiscal impact associated with this recommendation.
BACKGROUND:
To help guide decision-making at all levels of the organization, and to focus the City's efforts on its core functions, the City developed a Strategic Plan in January 2012. The Strategic Plan consisted of a mission statement, core values, three-year goals, and six-month objectives.
The City Council's three-year goals state what the organization needs to accomplish, consistent with the mission statement and organizational progress toward its Vision.
The City has identified five (5) three-year goals for 2012-2015 (listed in no particular order):
1. Maintain and enhance financial stability.
2. Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
3. Maintain and enhance city facilities, programs and infrastructure.
4. Encourage engagement and increase participation by residents and businesses.
5. Enhance, preserve and protect the environment and health of our beach community
Approximately every six months, the City Council and Department Heads meet to evaluate progress on the goals, identify core values for the City, and to develop objectives for the next six-month period. The most recent six month review took place on July 9 and 10, 2013.
The City Council received the last monthly update to the Strategic Plan Monitoring Matrix (Attachment 1) in December, 2013. The next six month review would have been held in January, 2014. However, the Council has the strategic planning process in hiatus as the Council's policy governance initiative and the development of the next generation of strategic planning is under way. On March 4, 2014, the City Council requested a current status on the objectives set forth in the Strategic Plan.
DISCUSSION:
City staff has continued to work on the goals established for the six month period which ended in January, 2014. An update on the progress of the six-month strategic objectives identified and scheduled for completion by January 14, 2014, is included in Attachment 1. Most of the objectives have been met with some on-going. Future objectives were also listed in some instances. Those objectives which have not yet been completed or which were identified as future objectives are listed below.
Maintain and Enhance Financial Stability
Objective 5 - Develop and present to the City Council for action a vision for the sustainability and vitality for the commercial districts (Future Objective).
Increase Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency
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Maintain and Enhance City Facilities, Programs and Infrastructure
Objective 4 - Update and present to City Council an update to the City's Downtown Parking Management Plan (Future Objective)
Encourage Engagement and Increase Participation of Residents
Objective 2 - Identify and implement strategies to increase involvement of community organizations and business groups in City meetings.
Enhance, Preserve and Protect the Environment and Health of Our Beach Community
Objective 5 - Clarify with the City Council the tree requirements for walk streets including view obstruction and grandfathering issues (Future Objective).
The City Council expressed interest in reviewing the status of the Strategic Plan objectives in the context of possibly developing an interim work program in the near future.
CONCLUSION:
Staff recommends that the City Council receive this report.
Attachment:
1. Strategic Plan Monitoring Matrix (03/26/14)