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File #: 14-0112    Version: 2
Type: Gen. Bus. - Staff Report Status: Agenda Ready
In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 4/1/2014 Final action: 4/1/2014
Title: Strategic Plan Update (Interim City Manager Jalili). RECEIVE REPORT
Attachments: 1. Strategic Plan Update 04012014
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 strategi...

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