Today I attended the City of Post Falls “Strategic Plan Forum" hosted at Real Life Ministries in Post Falls. This was a another step in the City’s strategic planning and outreach process, in which they were soliciting input from the Community as a follow-up to a prior “Community Assessment Survey”.
At this meeting, the preliminary survey responses were presented. The participating members from the community were divided into groups that had similar professional backgrounds/interests and were asked to think about, discuss, and identify strategies aimed at achieving the overarching strategic goals in the areas of: (1) Economic Development, (2) the Focus on Businesses (current & future) and (3) achieving a Well Planned and Livable Community. Each of the groups was asked for input on the implementation of identified strategies, the related purpose of the implementation strategy and what it would require to achieve success, i.e. the desired outcome of the identified strategies.
Many of the ideas discussed at today’s Forum came from the “Community Assessment Surveys” which are available online and you can submit the surveys until May 25th; see more information at www.postfallsidaho.org/StrategicPlan/strategicintro.html
The idea is to devise an implementable and achievable 5-year plan that provides quantifiable benefits, for tax dollars spent, and to achieve the objectives of the Strategic Plan. This was another incremental step in putting together a Strategic Plan for the City. Viable strategic planning is hard work! Today’s effort benefited from the wide variety of people (along with their ideas & experiences) that participated from the community at large.
The Planning process will continue for the next six months with the goal of creating a 5-year Strategic Plan for 2012–2017 by the end of 2012 for adoption by the City Council.
For Real Estate information in Post Falls, Idaho Please call Patsy Barten. 208 818-6622
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