We are fast approaching our next strategic plan taskforce meeting scheduled for April 18, 2008 between 9:30 and 12:00 at Coastal Carolina’s Brooks Stadium. We’ve added an extra 30 minutes to the meeting to give us time to work through a number of exercises that will help us clarify the findings of previous meetings and exercises. The task before us at present involves building group consensus on the vision for our strategic plan as well as the establishment of focus areas on which our future work will concentrate.
The results of previous visioning exercise revealed that there are (8) focus areas on which applied research may be conducted in support of strategies that facilitate economic development. The following focus areas are documented in the visioning exercise and the attached visioning notes document.
· Transportation
· Healthcare
· Education
· Infrastructure
· Natural Resources
· Intergovernmental Collaboration/Cooperation
· Tourism
· Cultural Amenities/Assets
A subcommittee of group members is currently working to develop these findings into a cohesive vision statement on which you will have input at the next meeting. Please take a moment to consider the focus areas noted above and indicate to me by email reply which focus area you would be most interested in working with a subcommittee on. At the next meeting we formally organize (as evenly as possible) into such groups. It will be the responsibility of each subcommittee to identify a number of economic development goals associated with the respective focus areas and to identify any questions that may be targeted by applied research. Regardless of whether you will be able to participate in the next meeting, please select a subcommittee as future meetings in which you may participate will be organized on the basis of such groups.
It may be helpful for you to take a look at some economic development plan from other areas. In many cases these plans will help you both develop and organize new ideas relative the information we include in our plan. If any of you are aware of other plans or locations that we should include based on your experience, please let me know and I will make such documents available to the taskforce online.
The results of previous visioning exercise revealed that there are (8) focus areas on which applied research may be conducted in support of strategies that facilitate economic development. The following focus areas are documented in the visioning exercise and the attached visioning notes document.
· Transportation
· Healthcare
· Education
· Infrastructure
· Natural Resources
· Intergovernmental Collaboration/Cooperation
· Tourism
· Cultural Amenities/Assets
A subcommittee of group members is currently working to develop these findings into a cohesive vision statement on which you will have input at the next meeting. Please take a moment to consider the focus areas noted above and indicate to me by email reply which focus area you would be most interested in working with a subcommittee on. At the next meeting we formally organize (as evenly as possible) into such groups. It will be the responsibility of each subcommittee to identify a number of economic development goals associated with the respective focus areas and to identify any questions that may be targeted by applied research. Regardless of whether you will be able to participate in the next meeting, please select a subcommittee as future meetings in which you may participate will be organized on the basis of such groups.
It may be helpful for you to take a look at some economic development plan from other areas. In many cases these plans will help you both develop and organize new ideas relative the information we include in our plan. If any of you are aware of other plans or locations that we should include based on your experience, please let me know and I will make such documents available to the taskforce online.
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