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Committee reviews Muskegon County four-year administration goals: finance, waterfront heritage, housing and airport targets
Summary
Committee members discussed the administration’s four-year strategic goals, including a target to achieve an AA+ bond rating, waterfront heritage-landing planning, efforts to address homeless youth, and airport revenue strategies to reduce general fund support.
At its April 17 meeting, the Muskegon County Community Development and Strategic Planning Committee reviewed the administration’s proposed four-year goals for county departments, focusing on financial sustainability, waterfront heritage landing planning, homelessness and airport development.
Chair Nance introduced the strategic-plan binder that staff provided to directors for aligning short- and long-term goals. The county’s strategy, she said, is structured in three phases — assessment, strategy development and actionable implementation — with departmental goals tied to that framework.
On finance, staff described a multi-year goal to raise the county’s bond rating from AA to AA+. The presentation noted the importance of maintaining fund balance targets (a stated 14–19% policy, with the…
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