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8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Strategic Plan Work Session #2: Review of Draft Vision, Mission, Values and Strategic Focus Areas
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
On April 29, 2019, the Town Council adopted the Town of Vienna 2019 Strategic Plan: Honing Excellence in an Exceptional Hometown. The adoption was the culmination of a process that had begun in late 2017, when a consultant was hired to lead the strategic planning process.
The document established a vision statement that was intended to last for two decades, but more centrally established a nearer-term time frame for a set of goals, strategies and action steps that were to be undertaken over the following five years - through 2023.
With the new year (2024), Town Council indicated its desire to review and update the Strategic Plan. To assist in this process, the Town has hired James Patteson, Principal of Blue Heron Leadership Group, who will work with the Council and staff to manage this process and help to produce a final document.
More details on both the prior Strategic Plan and Mr. Patteson were provided in the agenda packet for the March 7, 2024, work session.
As a reminder, the Strategic Plan occupies a particular medium-term position among the vision and strategy documents that the Town Council has approved or are in progress in recent years. Such documents include:
> Comprehensive Plan - Required by State and with the longest planning horizon of 20+ years.
> Strategic Plan - Adopted by Town Council for a period of 4-6 years.
> Annual Priorities - Adopted by Town Council for each of the past two years, to be implemented in that calendar year with a completion date that may or may not extend beyond that respective calendar year.
> Operating and Capital Budgets, which are reviewed and adopted annually, though the capital budget has a longer-term planning horizon.
> Special-topic plans (Parks, Economic Development Strategy, Annex property, etc.), which are conducted and adopted as the Town Council...
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