HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.30.06 Work Session Packet
City of Farmington
325 Oak Street
Farmington, MN 55024
Mission Statement
Through teamwork and cooperation,
the City of Farmington provides quality
services that preserve our proud past and
foster a promisingfuture.
AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP
OCTOBER 30, 2006
5:30 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. APPROVE AGENDA
3. STRATEGIC PLANNING
4. ADJOURN
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
Council workshops are conducted as an infonnalwork session, all discussions shall be considered fact-finding, hypothetical and unofficial critical thinking exercises,
which do not reflect an official public position.
Council work session outcomes should not be construed by the attending public and/or reporting media as the articulation of a formal City policy position. Only
official Council action normally taken at a regularly scheduled Council meeting should be considered as aformal expression of the City's position on any given matter.
Economic Development
Strategic Planning
. . . for Your Community
and Your Organization. ..
Benefits of Strategic Planning
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. Focus energy and resources of staff and
volunteers
. Achieve forward movement not just motion
. Identify practical steps to achieve long term
goals
Benefits of Strategic Planning
. Identify clear goals, tasks, timelines and
accountable parties
. Strengthens accountability - able to measure
accomplishments
. Great "orientation program" for new staff and
board members
. Focuses the organization to customer
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Steps of the Strategic Planning
Process
. Getting organized
. Environmental scan
. Identifying and Working the Issues
. Implementation
. Measuring progress and impact
. Updating the plan
Getting Organized
. Obtain support from leadership
. Agree on facilitation process
. Identify participants (for organizalion)
. EDA, Council, key staff, funding agencies
. Secure funding, develop timeline
Competitiveness Assessment and
Environmental Scan
Yow: community/organization in context. . . . . .
. Quantitative indicators - internal and external
. Qualitative indicators - interviews or surveys
. Information on critical national and regional
trends
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Working the Issues
. Provide or present information gathered in
environmental scan
. Facilitated session
. SWOT (strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunitie~ Threats)
. Priority issues
. Goal and action steps for priority issues
. Draft plan - cixculate - revise - approve
Implementation
. Clearly communicate to board and staff
. Effectively focuses volunteer activity
. Effectively focuses staff activity
. Forms strong basis for budget development and
approval
. Change... expect 85-90%... some ideas don't
work, new stuff comes up
Measuring progress / impact
. Early in organization's history.. . measure
progress on building foundation
. As organization matures. ..measure results
. Learn from lack of success... ..what can we do
differently?
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Updating the Strategies
. Community Strategies- 1 & 3 year plans and 10
year VlSlon
. Organizational Strategies - 1 & 3 year plans and
10 year vision
. Review, measure progress, and revisit annually
Typical community issues
and organizational issues
Community
. Location
. Industrialland/Bldgs
. Transportation
. Infrastructure/ telecom
. W oMorce
. Financing/incentives
Org;mizational
. Structure
. Leadership
. CO=un1cation
. Budget
. Evaluation/measw:es
Strategic Planningftr
Your Community
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