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Isanti schedules Feb. 4 goal-setting session to map 5–10 year priorities
Summary
Council agreed to hold a goal-setting workshop on Feb. 4, 2025 at 6 p.m. to discuss longer-term strategic priorities and asked staff to gather proposed goals and categories in advance.
Isanti City council members directed staff to assemble a goal-setting session to develop longer-range priorities and scheduled the session for Feb. 4, 2025, at 6 p.m.
Unidentified Speaker 4 opened discussion by noting the city has mission, vision and value statements from 2019 but has not conducted a large-scale strategic planning process recently. "Another format that could occur is to do some strategic planning where it looks at long term goals that go out even beyond the 5 year mark like even 10 years," the speaker said.
Council members debated whether goal-setting had historically become a short-term 'wishlist' of projects. Unidentified Speaker 1 said prior sessions often turned into spending wishlists and questioned their productivity, while others suggested using the upcoming session to set 5-, 10- and 15-year goals and then moving to a less frequent cadence after new councilmembers settled in.
Members discussed practical scheduling: whether to align the meeting with an EDA or committee night to reduce travel and whether the session should last one evening or be split into longer working sessions. The council ultimately agreed to hold the session on Feb. 4 at 6 p.m., with staff asked to collect goals, topics and suggested objectives ahead of the meeting.
