Kendra Davis, of the commissioners’ office, told commissioners that staff have mapped 311 projects and 289 programs to a newly refined strategic plan organized around four focus areas and that the county’s internal dashboard has been rebuilt to reflect those priorities. “We had about 311 projects, 289 programs, and they all align within the new focus areas and objectives,” Davis said.

The update matters because the mapping and dashboard will be used to track which offices lead projects, to collect outcome measures and key performance indicators and to inform decision-making. Davis said the alignment of outcome measures and KPIs remains a work in progress as departments and offices complete their data reporting.

Davis said the county reduced its number of focus areas from six to four and is treating good governance as a foundational element that underpins the other focus areas. She described an internal tool staff use to visualize projects by lead and focus area and said the commission’s public-facing dashboard has been updated online. Davis said staff are also coordinating metrics with the Align Arapaho effort and plan a Q2 update for the commission.

Commissioners raised design and framing concerns. Commissioner Jessica Campbell asked whether the dashboard should break out or further categorize the work labeled “good governance” so the public and commissioners can see where activities are landing within that broad theme. “Is it worth maybe for good governance having, like, a breakout and sort of iteration of those objectives or of, like, kind of categories within good governance so that we kind of get a picture of where our activities are landing?” Campbell asked.

Commissioner Rhonda Fields reiterated that good governance was intended as a theme across objectives rather than a single program. “My understanding is that good governance is in all of the objectives,” Fields said. Davis acknowledged the tension: some departments’ work is both programmatic and part of good-governance practices (for example, IT accessibility work). She said staff will continue refining definitions for “program” and “project” and the dashboard’s display so the underlying diversity of work is clearer.

Staff also noted specific project changes: several public works projects experienced schedule delays, and a few IT projects were canceled or reclassified because of funding decisions or because they were no longer being pursued as projects. Commissioner Fields asked for a copy of a public health plan referenced in the update; Davis said the plan is available online and staff would send a link and a document copy.

Davis identified next steps: continue aligning KPIs with focus areas, improve the dashboard’s public presentation, and launch a decision-making framework this September to integrate with the county’s BSR process. She said staff hope to present a further update when the commission reconvenes after its break.

The meeting covered only this strategic-plan update; there were no formal votes reported on the item.