City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2019 04 23

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City of Louisville Strategic Plan Implementation In 2018, the City of Louisville completed its first organizational strategic plan. The Strategic Plan is intended to convey how the City government can best serve our residents now and into the future. The Strategic Plan includes the City's mission, vision and values, and highlights some of the high priorities we as an organization will accomplish over the next one to two years. The purpose of the plan is to serve as a road map for our organization, to strengthen our organizational culture, and to serve as a communication tool for the community to understand the strategic vision and operating guidelines of the organization. As an internal, guiding document, the Strategic Plan outlines our operating guidelines for the organization as a whole — our Vision, Mission and Values (represented throughout this document as V,M,V) and Critical Success Factors — and will help create an intentional organizational culture, which is aligned with the work that we do. In addition, the Strategic Plan includes Priority Initiatives that capture the City's key priorities for the next one to two years (aligned with the biennial budget process) in each of the Critical Success Factor areas. Together, these elements demonstrate to our residents what we plan to accomplish, and the manner in which we commit to doing our work. The development of a Strategic Plan has been a priority for City Council and the City Manager, in order to provide a singular, guiding document that aligns with the City's Comprehensive Plan, program -based budget, Charter and other planning documents to reflect a vision for the organization. Existing plans are still relevant, and will continue to provide direction in key areas of our work. In addition, the City of Louisville continues to move forward with its program -based budget structure, which includes program areas with specific goals, and sub -programs with measurable objectives. These goals and objectives are measured on a regular basis through our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and the Strategic Plan reflects how our Priority Initiatives are aligned with these program areas. In essence, the program and sub -program areas reflect all the work of the City that's performed on a day to day basis, while the Priority Initiatives reflect those high -priority efforts that represent an increased financial and resource investment over a period of time, and the V,M,V reflect how we do this work. In order to utilize our Strategic Plan as a living document and to fully realize its impact through the organization, a clear path for implementation is necessary. This document lays out some initial and long - terms steps necessary to implement the Strategic Plan in the coming year, and ideas about how to keep it relevant into the future. What's in the Strategic Plan? The Strategic Plan itself is simple, although very meaningful. It contains key information that reflect who 1 28