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REPORT 7A Page 1 To the Honorable Mayor and City Council frqmtb~ Qtt Ii M;~n~~r January 26, 2009 SUBJECT Adoption of Redwood City Strategic Planning Process RECOMM ENDATION Council review and by motion, adopt the strategic planning process and direct staff to complete preparation and implementation of the City's strategic plan. BACKGROUND At the priority setting session in February of 20081 the City Council expressed an interest in creating a Citywide Strategic Plan that would align council priorities, goalsl objectives and financial resources in a unified process. Further, the Council felt that such a plan would allow for a more informed and in depth annual discussion on how best to achieve their desired results. Based on this conversation, the City Manager appointed a subcommittee of the City's executive team to embark on developing a strategic planning process. Deputy City Manager Magda Gonzalez and Human Resources Director/Assistant City Manager Bob Bellied the subcommittee, or design team, which also included Fire Chief Jim Skinner, Parks Recreation and Community Services Director Corinne Centeno and Public Works Services Director Larry Barwacz. Over the course of the last nine months, the committee took the following steps to bring forward a strategic plan design for Council consideration: 1. Identification of stakeholder interests regarding a strategic plan; 2. Review of a variety of strategic plan models used by both private and public orga n izations; 3. An inventory of materials, plans, processes, and documents already used in the City that could be incorporated into a strategic planning process; 4. A review with the Mayor and Vice Mayor on a draft process for the City; 5. A training session for Council on the strategic planning process; 6. The creation of the first version of a draft plan that includes existing information that is traditionally included in a strategic plan; 7. Identification of next steps and a timeline for completion to implement the City's first strategic plan. Stakeholder interests served as the "touchstones" that drove the strategic plan design. Those interests included such things as: · Council priorities - now to be called "strategic initiatives" - should be recognized as the long-term direction of the City and should not be revisited or re-written every year; · A variety of stakeholders should have input into the strategic planning process and annual update of the strategic plan;