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'Success Grows Here!'

Council endorses Lacombe County’s 2022-2027 Strategic Plan

Jun 14, 2022 | 11:18 AM

Lacombe County council recently approved a new Strategic Plan which they say will help guide the organization over the next five years.

The plan has identified four focus areas to support future decision-making and implementation activities: business, finances, assets, and community.

“Since 2005, Lacombe County council and staff have used the strategic planning process to define our direction and long-term goals, and to create specific plans to achieve and evaluate them. This new plan, while reflecting the priory areas of our current council, is a continuation of this process,” said County Manager Tim Timmons.

Officials say each focus area has an intended outcome and series of strategies and performance indicators to guide administration in achieving their new vision for Lacombe County: ‘Success grows here!’

“By following the original goals set out in our Strategic Plan, we are proactively preparing for the future,” said Deputy Reeve John Ireland. “This new Strategic Plan will continue to ensure that we are aware of and responding to future challenges while continuing to position Lacombe County as an attractive, balanced, and progressive municipality.”

This March, council discussed what community aspirations they heard while running for office in October 2021. They also say they looked at previous plans built to shape future success and considered current political, environmental, social, technological, legislative and economic influences on achieving that success.

“We compiled the information we heard during those conversations to create strong, easily understood directional goals for our senior leadership team to build plans around,” said Ireland. “We expect that through transparent communication with our community and performance-related conversations with our internal teams, you will see how ‘success grows here!’”

County officials say the time together with the community resulted in a new Strategic Plan that provides absolute clarity of future expectations for community-wide benefit.

With the new Vision Statement in place, alongside council’s strategic goals, the county says they will move into the next planning phase.

The business units are scheduled to come together in mid-2022 to build business plans for their individual departments, aligning with the strategic goals identified in the Strategic Plan. From there, the county says the leadership team will generate staff work plans, budgets, reporting, and more, in order to meet the priorities laid out in the Strategic Plan. County officials say more information will be shared with the public and staff once the mentioned documents are in place.

To read the full 2022-2027 Strategic Plan, visit the county’s website.