Title
Approval of 2017 Strategic Leadership Plan Update
Recommended Action
I move that Council approve the Los Alamos County updated 2017 Strategic Leadership Plan.
County Manager's Recommendation
The County Manager recommends that Council approve the motion as presented.
Body
At the January 24, 2017, Special Meeting, County Council discussed its current adopted (2016) Strategic Leadership Plan. The Plan is a major policy statement by Council, and is intended to be indicative of the County’s overall efforts. With leadership assuming their roles in January, the Council desired to review the Plan to ensure the focus areas and goals were reflective of current needs in addition to discussing their priorities for the year.
Council discussed many of the individual goals while offering potential new goal areas within the existing broader focus areas. The discussion resulted in the following new goals added to the Plan:
--Implement the Comprehensive Plan with an emphasis on neighborhoods and zoning (Operational Excellence Focus Area); and,
--Build the local tourism economy (Economic Vitality Focus Area).
Council chose to eliminate the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, market and branding, and the attraction of tourism-related business goals given they are now included in the broader new tourism economy goal.
In addition, Council modified the following three existing goals:
--Revitalize and eliminate blight in Los Alamos and White Rock (Financial Sustainability Focus Area);
--Promote creation of a variety of housing options for all segments of the Los Alamos community including infill opportunities as appropriate (Housing focus area); and,
--Simplify permit requirements and improve the overall process to become easier to work with.
Other changes included adding the University of New Mexico - Los Alamos to the existing support of educational services goal and with this change to eliminate the life-long educational institutions goal. Council...
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