ITEM:		DISCUSSION ITEM
15.	DISCUSS PREFERRED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRICT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR 2024
Meeting Date:			February 12, 2024	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			David J. Stoldt,	Program/
			General Manager	Line Item No.:
Prepared By:			David J. Stoldt	Cost Estimate:
General Counsel Review: N/A
Committee Recommendation: N/A
CEQA Compliance: This action does not constitute a project as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15378.

DISCUSSION: The District has taken several different approaches to establishing strategic planning goals. From 1996 through 2013, there were fourteen strategic planning efforts, eleven facilitated by an outside consultant and three facilitated by the District General Manager. From 2015 through 2020, the Board opted for an every-other-year process whereby the General Manager met with Directors individually and then complied a set of 1-year and 3-year goals to bring to the Board for discussion, modification, and adoption - typically in April prior to budget discussion. In 2021, the Board elected to go back to a facilitator and adopt goals and specific actionable objectives, on a calendar year basis. Due to COVID, those facilitated sessions were held via Zoom. In 2022 and 2023, the Board met in Special Session, facilitated by the General Manager, to establish goals and objectives for the calendar year.

RECOMMENDATION: At this time, the Board should provide staff general direction on the process it would like to use for establishing strategic goals and objectives for 2024.

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