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As the 5-year strategic plan expired, with over 90.17% of items with measurable completion, staff recommended completing a strategic planning session with the city council and leadership team to develop another 5-year strategic plan. On December 18, 2024, the City Council approved an agreement with Richard Fursman of HueLife to facilitate and document retreat results. In advance of the strategic planning retreat, staff provided links to relevant documents with a brief overview of each document at the February 26 City Council Workshop. Those documents included: • 2019 Strategic Plan (PDF) • 2022 Strategic Plan Update (PDF) • 2022 Strategic Plan Progress Reporting (PDF) • 2024 Public Works & Parks Project Review and 2025 Project (PDF) • 2025 Little Canada Housing Study (PDF) • City of Little Canada Community Inclusion Report (PDF) • City of Little Canada Sustainability Report (PDF) • Little Canada Rice Street Corridor - ULI Minnesota Technical Assistance Panel Final Report (PDF) The strategic planning retreat was held on February 28 and March 1. At that retreat, City Council members, city leadership team, and planning and parks commission members participated in a facilitated discussion led by HueLife. The discussion resulted in four strategic directions to help achieve a practical vision for the community and identified clear steps the city would take to achieve that vision: 1. Delivering Dynamic Spaces 2. Creating Supportive Networks 3. Empowering High Performance 4. Providing Transparent Communication 2025-2030 Strategic Plan HueLife provided raw data on March 18 from the strategic planning retreat, including a Vision 2030, potential blocks that would hinder success, and items to foster focused implementation for the first one to two years. Administration staff took the initial data and restructured it to mirror the city’s existing strategic plan reporting tool. Staff then reviewed internally to build key outcome indicators that are specific to their department's assigned action items. On April 9, the leadership team reviewed the plan as a whole in order to draft for the April 23 City Council Workshop. Following the City Council’s review, staff will work with HueLife to finalize a strategic plan overview document that will serve as an easy-to-read guide for the city website. As has been historically done, a graphic representation of status will be available on the City of Little Canada website in the form of a bar chart to add transparency in reporting. Staff will continue to meet every six weeks, updating action item statuses accordingly, both internally and externally, on the strategic plan progress reporting webpage. 2025-2030 Strategic Plan Reporting Tool The strategic plan progress reporting tool breaks each strategic direction into an easy-to-use and easy-to-update Excel file with five completion status categories monitored through a percentage tracking system. Additional information for each action item has been encompassed in order to document steps toward completion and provide a status of completion. Table 1 defines each heading within the progress reporting tool.