The City Commission met at a publicly announced meeting on June 14, 2022, for the purpose of outlining specific initiatives for the update of the City of Alachua Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is designed to help the City Manager and staff members develop a scope and action plan for each strategic initiative to support the realization of the Vision Statement in a planned, systematic and incremental manner, based on City Commission established priorities.
Several Strategic Initiatives were reaffirmed or developed by the City Commission at that meeting. These Strategic Initiatives are ranked in Priority Order (Highest, Higher and High as informally ranked by the City Commission during the June 14, 2022 meeting). Each Strategic Priority demonstrates which Goal it supports: Economic Development (E), Community, Educational, Cultural and Recreational Development (C), Transportation Mobility (T), Residential Opportunities (R). The goals were derived from the City's Vision Statement in the Comprehensive Plan.
The City Manager assigned a champion or champions at the Executive and Department Director levels to further define each Strategic Initiative as follows:
- Define the scope of the initiative;
- State desired outcome;
- Provide summary background;
- Identify the stakeholders;
- Provide the fiscal impact and funding source;
- Develop an action plan to accomplish the initiative;
- Provide the estimated completion date for each action item;
- Create Critical Success Metrics to support progress report.
The Draft FY 2023 Strategic Plan is being presented for consideration and approval by the City Commission.