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0 mission statement, core values, and vision statement. Please read this material prior to our staff meeting. As I understand the subject, "visioning" can be a very long and involved process. Visioning would involve the public and would require the assistance of a professional consultant. Even goal setting and priority setting can be complicated and time consuming. Visioning, goal setting, and priority setting would involve both the City Council and city staff. I am not really sure, and I will ask the City Council,but I do not believe that the Council wants to go through a full visioning process that could take 18 months and involve numerous segments (and citizens) of the community. This is especially true with the Comp Plan process still ongoing. Also, I don't think the City Council wants to spend a lot of money on consultants. On the other hand, I think that the City Council would like to accomplish the establishment of some citywide goals, priorities, and vision statements in no more than two separate special meetings. Whether a consultant is necessary for this work is uncertain at this time. In trying to organize this topic into a logical format, I believe that as a starting point, the City Council needs four to six general and broad vision statements. Then the goals from the annual reports from each department head, along with the steps to accomplish the goals, helps us achieve the vision statements that the Council has endorsed. I also think that you want the Council to be involved in the establishment of the departmental goals—either add to, delete, or change the goals. The Council then needs to establish priorities for the goals S based on both a department and a citywide point of view. With regards to Council priorities for department goals and activities, I'm not sure about the level of detail that is desired by the staff. For example,with Streets/Parks, do we want the Council to prioritize composting expenditures versus park mowing or snow plowing expenditures versus sealcoating?Also, do you want the Council to prioritize a Street goal as compared to a Police goal? Possible vision statement categories include the following: A public safety vision statement should cover police, fire, ambulance, emergency preparedness,building/zoning...deals with providing a safe community. A culture/recreation vision statement should cover the parks,recreation activities, senior citizen activities,ice arena,library, and relate to city leisure time programs and services. A public works vision statement should relate to streets and storm sewer,utilities (electric,water, sewer), transportation system, and general infrastructure to service all segments of the community from residential to commercial to industrial. A general government vision statement should relate to public information, customer service, taxes, economic development (live and work within the city), etc. A quality of life vision statement should include such areas as churches and schools; • the small town feeling in Elk River,including the downtown; a healthy environment, including the lake and rivers;residential lifestyle choices; etc.