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City of Lino Lakes 2025 Strategic Planning and Goal Setting Session Proposal June 19, 2025 Ms. Karen Anderson, City Administrator - It is my pleasure to submit to you this proposal for facilitating a Strategic Planning and Goal Setting session in 2025. The challenge of leadership in local government is significant and spending time as a leadership group is an important first step in any effective organization. Establishing a shared vision and strategies to guide the organization and City toward that vision is important. An established vision and long-term organizational strategies allows decision -makers and staff to perform short-term goals and day-to-day tasks with an understanding of the destination and purpose and organizational clarity throughout the levels of leadership. The process and organizational time commitment to complete a strategic planning process is significant. It is also time and resources very well spent. In this proposal I will outline the parts of the process and outcomes, but it's also important to understand the value of spending time together as a leadership team talking about your City and organization. As governing bodies and staff leadership teams, so much time is spent on the urgent matters that come before the City and organization. Periodically taking time to step back and focus on all the matters - urgent and not urgent - that impact the future of the City and organization is very important. Being in a City leadership role myself, I have found it to be a very healthy practice for my City's leadership team to conduct a strategic planning and goal setting process every two years, with periodic check -ins a few times in between. My recommendation for this process would involve two workshops focused on three elements of strategic planning and organizational leadership. Typically, this process will take around three hours per session of time through group work, discussion, staff presentation and prioritization. The outline would be as follows: 1. Long -Term Direction - conducting a series of discussions and activities to develop agreement around general principles of the City's vision and long-term strategies. This will include as outcomes the principles of a vision statement and core strategies. Each of the core strategy statements will be defined and outlined to provide transparency and clarity regarding each item's organizational importance. 2. Organizational Performance - most planning sessions focus on "what" should be accomplished, but taking time to discuss "how" the organization should perform is equally important. Outcomes will include the development of a mission statement and/or organizational values that serve as guiding principles of the City's overall value proposition. Page 30 of 142